The PA BON has voted to provisionally deny your application for certification as a CNS without specialty because the information your provided regarding your education, experience, and work history is insufficient to demonstrate equivalence to a certification exam in the specialty area.
So an MSN and post-MSN, three nursing certifications (they are RN, not APRN), 3 years in the CNS Role, 5 years in an expanded educator role (where I did many CNS type things-quality, EBP collaboration across the health system and community). Twenty eight pus years as an RN with no disciplinary action. A 3.75 undergrad GPA and 3.9 Grad GPA. I am lagging behind the nurse with 1-2 years at the bedside who takes the adult gero exam. MY crime is that I am a perinatal nurse and there is no exam for me. They got rid of he generalist exam. They had it out for abt 1.5 years, but it was invalid due to so few people taking it. (Maybe they could have left it out a bit longer????)Don't worry, PA BON didn't recognize the generalist exam either. I have a colleague who took it who is also a non-CNS in PA. It is fabulous thatyou can function in CNS practice in PA, you just can't be recognized as such.
Thanks PA BON fa la la la la to you.
OK pity party over... I graduated from a CA school and am thinking of applying there. Any other ideas for state licensure somewhere for a slacker like me? would like to apply to a DNP program, but many require APRN licensure.
