My I'm going to medical school

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Why I'm going to medical school. Ill keep this short and simple. How does this relate to everybody else? Read the entire thing and see, this explanation is not at all about me.

Overwhelming amount of masters level nursing programs. Never before besides law and maybe the MBA have I ever seen such a large amount of specific programs pop up. Every school in america seems to have a masters level nursing program in their academia. This includes the notorious for-profit schools that everybody excluding people who hold degrees from these institutions seem to loathe. Our credentialing bodies, by allowing all of these poorly regulated programs to pop up, have lowered them selves to the level of weaksause, bile-like vomitus.

decreasing job market. Again, with every soul in america for going an advanced practicing nursing degree, our job availability will decrease severely in the next few years. This has already began to take place, with many NPS across america, varying geographically of course, fighting for entry level jobs making substandard wages.

Low barrier to entry. This is where the nail gets hit on the head. Essentially, to keep enrollment high, higher level nursing programs (excluding a few from higher end schools) have DROPPED their admission standards, in fear that somebody will go to another program instead of their own. NO GRE, NO GPA, NO EXPERIENCE, NO INTERVIEW. I mean come on people, really??? Your so money hungry you will lower your admission standards just to get more applicants and provide more seats. At least in the medical world, schools keep it competitive, for which is mostly to make their school look better.

Role confusion. This is not prevalent everywhere, but even with all these nurses pushing for education of the np model to patients” a large amount of people still don't know what we are. PAGING DOCTOR NURSE, DOCTOR NURSE. I mean how ridiculous does that sound. DOCTOR NURSE??? while the DOCTOR NURSE complication may be DNP and PHD specific, there is much confusion to a nurse wearing a while coat, prescribing medication, etc (not anything wrong with it but it is confusing to patients)

Weaksause curriculum. I am sure there are very difficult schools out there that provide the MSN needed to obtain the overly sought nurse prackk” status, but many of these online programs at for-profit universities have really dumbed the requirements. I know of many schools that require no closed book tests, being the only one you take is your majorly feared BOARD EXAM, which was so notoriously easy i don't see how anybody can fail it. I think the hardest question I had was. SOMEBODY COMES IN WITH THAT BILE-LIKE- VOMUCKUS AND RIGHT QUADRANT UPPER PAIN IN THE ABDOMINALS AREA. WHAT LOLTEST DO YOU ORDER IMAGING WISE FIRST SO U CAN DIAGNOSE THIS PATIENT LIKE A 1337SAUSE NURSE PRACKK AND BE EPICLY LEET AND GET A LONGER WHYT KOAT. But anyway…. it is too easy, to short, and does not always prepare people for the level of knowledge required to do his or her job. If you disagree, then why do we aways get these ZOMG I CANT TAKE MY JOB ITS TOO HARD AND HARD AND I CANT FUNCTION, DIDNIT LERN ENUFF, HELP” posts on all nurses from these inadequate providers that went to the university of the FEENIX at western senator university and didn't even learn what lisinopril is? epic failure my fellow PRACKKS.

I could keep going but i will spare you all from my wonderfully notorious grammar and poor use of capitalization to go study the MCAT since medical school actually has requirements to get into it. By no means am I smarter or think I'm smarter than anyone else, but by taking this path I will have a much more rewarding career, more job options, and an overall better outlook than most (if not all) NURSE PRACKKS. None of this is due to any quality I possess besides the fact that I have been imbued with the knowledge that Low barrier to entry, overly easy schooling, hot popularity, and poor credentialing bodies will lead to a severely saturated market for current and future nurse practitioners, which I have chosen not to be a part of.

If anybody else wants to follow me through a more difficult and rewarding pathway than advance practice nursing can provide, you will reap the rewards of the hard labor you shall put forth, if not, enjoy the last few years of excellent salary guarantee (excluding excellent providers, which most people think they are but they are not even close) and wallow in your despair once your fighting for jobs that pay a couple grand more than RN positions.

Eat dirt you poorly managed nursing credentialing bodies, for imbuing all these poor people with high hopes and dreams which will burn in fumes faster than the dotcom bubble did.

THE PRACK BUBBLE WILL POP, ARE YOU READY?

#incoming hate

#pulverize the dead horse

#all of the people who cherish his or her APRN license will be super MADZLOL and be offended by this which is awesome

#hanging out under my bridge

#overly sensitive nursing population

Oh, and I also put down a 200k+ year job to do all this, for all you people who will be like "LOL YOUR BADZ AND NEED MORE SKOOL TO BE GOODS AND PROBABLY MADE LIKE 55K PER YEAR ROFL ROFL ROFL."

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Well, despite the weird gibberish, I agree with many of your points (the ones I could understand, that is). Best wishes for your journey!

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Specializes in Cardiac, Home Health, Primary Care.

I also do not understand all of your post. MD vs NP vs PA is all a personal choice. Could I have done medical school? Sure. I just didn't want to go that route. Does that make me wrong? No.

Much luck in your endeavors. I really hope there was a good reason for your (lack of) proper grammar.

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Specializes in ICU.

Umm...ok?

Move along to medical school so is mere humans can complete our msn degrees in peace, please.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Well, despite the weird gibberish, I agree with many of your points (the ones I could understand, that is). Best wishes for your journey!

Lol, me too. :)

OP kudos to you and trust me if I wasn't such an old beeach I'd be right there with ya. Nursing continues to make me shake my head and more recently cringe with embarrassment when I read some of the posts here from new and aspiring NPs who at least in my cyber space interpretation sound like naive nit wits.

Thankfully I'm heading into the last decade of my career because there is no way my good sense and pride will allow me to work as a NP for the pathetic wages I see so many settling for. I have set my threshold for the floor of $150,000 a year and if I can't make that much I'll retire early.

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Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

Some real truths in the sarcasm. AEB all the ads on this site for aforementioned schools.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU on your exciting journey!

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Specializes in FNP.

Wow, not exactly short and sweet as promised, but interesting (bitter? angry?) nonetheless. Good luck in med school. I hope your career as a physician is all you expect it to be.

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
Lol, me too. :)

OP kudos to you and trust me if I wasn't such an old beeach I'd be right there with ya. Nursing continues to make me shake my head and more recently cringe with embarrassment when I read some of the posts here from new and aspiring NPs who at least in my cyber space interpretation sound like naive nit wits.

Thankfully I'm heading into the last decade of my career because there is no way my good sense and pride will allow me to work as a NP for the pathetic wages I see so many settling for. I have set my threshold for the floor of $150,000 a year and if I can't make that much I'll retire early.

Slap me if I am ever in that group. I'm surely trying to not be.

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Usually if a college is advertising its program, its probably not going to make you a whole lot of money and/or provide good job prospects. Sort of like buying a car, the easier it is to buy, the bigger the shaft they are breaking off in you.

I mean who really thinks that something as easy to accomplish as a masters in nursing will continue to pay as much as it does? Nursing school isn't overly difficult to finish/get into, neither are the masters or bachelors. Engineering, medicine, other math, and those professions that have a barrier to entry will continue to pay well into the future. There is more than likely a direct correlation between the level of offense somebody takes to this post and the severity of a hit his or her career will take in regards to the flood of oncoming masters prepared nurses. It seems to more successful ones of the bunch take this a little more lightly. Don't be blinded by self-bias, the flood is coming my friends, and you do not want to drown in the sub-70000 salary tidal wave that is coming to wash away your dreams of a home, car, and whatnot.

btw, while i was reading this 15 adds popped up on this website saying I can change the world with an DNP. So obviously as soon as that diploma hits my hand hunger, HIV, obesity, and all those other world problems will be cured. Unless of course by changing the world they mean feeding the investors in these online for profits a daily steak dinner for the rest of eternity, guaranteeing them and their loved ones a new BENZ, and adding on a new garage to their already huge mansions.

All you people who spend ridiculous amounts of loan money on these rip off schools are a bunch of suckers. Even a car salesman for land rover would have pity on your soul.

Americans and their dreams... its what investors feed off of, and many of you have fallen right into that trap.

How does this relate to the above post? Theres only one for profit medical school in the country, and probably 500 nursing ones. Just a rough estimate regarding the number of for profit nursing schools, but anyway, don't think for one second the credentialing bodies aren't getting a big chunk of change from this. The AMA is probably just as greedy, but at least they don't feed off of their own kind. But again, nurses are know to eat their young, both at work, and in the financial markets.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Don't be blinded by self-bias, the flood is coming my friends, and you do not want to drown in the sub-70000 salary tidal wave that is coming to wash away your dreams of a home, car, and whatnot.

Dude, what about the hookers and beer? Does that count as "whatnot"? I already got a couple of houses and cars, lol. ;)

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
Usually if a college is advertising its program, its probably not going to make you a whole lot of money and/or provide good job prospects. Sort of like buying a car, the easier it is to buy, the bigger the shaft they are breaking off in you.

I mean who really thinks that something as easy to accomplish as a masters in nursing will continue to pay as much as it does? Nursing school isn't overly difficult to finish/get into, neither are the masters or bachelors. Engineering, medicine, other math, and those professions that have a barrier to entry will continue to pay well into the future. There is more than likely a direct correlation between the level of offense somebody takes to this post and the severity of a hit his or her career will take in regards to the flood of oncoming masters prepared nurses. It seems to more successful ones of the bunch take this a little more lightly. Don't be blinded by self-bias, the flood is coming my friends, and you do not want to drown in the sub-70000 salary tidal wave that is coming to wash away your dreams of a home, car, and whatnot.

Well, I guess that is just basic economics. I can see that flooding the market is going to have less savvy NPs grasping at lower offered salaries so that those, like Jules, who are very aware may have fewer options. However, those places will quickly see they're getting what they paid for.

That being said, and I'm not saying you said "all" graduates from these programs, but some will shine through, and hopefully, know their worth.

Is it up to our profession and our advanced professionals to guide them and educate them? I venture that many may think, sure, but they have to seek it. Others might say absolutely, let's get this wisdom widely spread. Then there are those who might say that they had to figure it out on their own, so must the newbies, bless their hearts.

Where do I fall? I'm a hungry FNP student absorbing the available knowledge in the hopes that I will not be too naive.

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Specializes in Peri-op/Sub-Acute ANP.
There is more than likely a direct correlation between the level of offense somebody takes to this post and the severity of a hit his or her career will take in regards to the flood of oncoming masters prepared nurses. It seems to more successful ones of the bunch take this a little more lightly.

So if someone disagrees with you, then they are one of "them", obviously. You sound like the bully who when challenged insists that it is not you that is at fault, but them because they don't have a good sense of humor and are too sensitive.

While you do make some interesting points, scattered among the vast amount of drivel and unintelligible ramblings, you discredit your own argument when you discredit anyone who dares to disagree with you.

Good luck in medical school. I personally think you will fit right in. That way, you can simply stand back and mock us poor saps who are going to stick with the profession and work to improve it while gloating on this page about how you were the prophet for the oncoming apocalypse that you clearly believe you are.

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