I've been a nurse for a little over a year and am currently looking into going back to school to become a PNP. I work in a level 3 NICU and attend deliveries along side our nnp for the day. I am blessed to have a job that doesn't have a delivery team, allowing us to be able to learn many skills while we still get hands on with the little ones. Anyways, I don't have any experience as a pediatric RN. With that said, I am debating on going into a pediatric nurse practitioner program. I would like to do the NNP program but there are none around where i live & im not certain how I'd perform after 24 hrs of deliveries and such. A few ladies I work with just finished up the PNP program and say they were able to keep up with the information, having only NICU experience, but haven't started their jobs as pnps, so I haven't gotten feedback on how they feel having only NICU experience in a PNP title.
Has anyone gone into a PNP program with only NICU experience? Did you feel like you were following the information in school & were able to keep up in the work setting as a PNP? Any NNPs / pnps weighed these options, and why did you decide on either one or the other?
