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Specializes in Pain Management, RN experience was in ER.

Hello all!

I was wondering if you all could detail the time it took you from the date of passing your certification exam to the date you received your license. Especially for Texas NPs.

I've taken (and passed!!) the AANP certification examination and am trying to figure out when I might expect to actually use this degree/cert :)

Thank you!

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Specializes in FNP, Surgery.

I had all my paperwork into the Texas BON- so they were just waiting on my test results. I had my Tx license within a month. Congratulations!!

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
Hello all!

I was wondering if you all could detail the time it took you from the date of passing your certification exam to the date you received your license. Especially for Texas NPs.

I've taken (and passed!!) the AANP certification examination and am trying to figure out when I might expect to actually use this degree/cert :)

Thank you!

Your degree comes from your program.

I am not sure how TX is compared to here but most people pass exam, a week to get verification letter, another 1-3 weeks to get state APRN license, then another 2-4 weeks to get DEA license.

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Specializes in Pain Management, RN experience was in ER.

Thanks for your responses! Sorry for the misunderstanding, BostonFNP. I know that the degree comes from the program :). I just meant that I've worked 2+ years for this degree... I'm ready to use it (in conjunction with my certification/license)! It seems that since the degree was conferred and certification exam has passed... nothing has changed. I guess I was expecting balloons and confetti to fall from the sky, but instead I go to work as a staff nurse, the same as always :).

Alisabeth, thanks for your response as well! I have submitted everything to the Texas BON (and refresh their page daily to see if my results have been received... even though I know it's too early). They have part I and II of my application, transcripts, etc. I'm hoping that since I turned everything in... things will go much more quickly. A common roadblock to submitting applications is the response, "please contact us when you have your license."

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Here is my timeline from Phila,PA. I went to La Salle University for an FNP degree and decided to take the ANCC boards.

8/31/2013- MSN degree conferred- request transcript to be sent once degree was conferred before I graduated

submitted online application to test

9/18/2013- Received Authority to test

11/07/2013- Scheduled exam and passed

submitted request to send to PA board

11/11/2013- Submitted application for CRNP license (School also submitted pharm verification and program verification)

11/22/2013- Check cashed for CRNP license

11/23/2013- Hardcopy of Board certification came in the mail

12/3/2013- Received CRNP license online

12/20/2013- received actual CRNP license in the mail

Began applying for Jobs in January, with very few responses.

2/12/2014- Phone interview

3/17/2014- Inperson interview scheduled

4/2/2014- Spoke to another manager on the phone

4/8/2014- received unofficial offer and signed collaborating agreement

4/24/2014- Prescriptive authority paperwork sent to BON

5/1/2014- delayed prescriptive authority because I accidently post dated the check to 2015 (doh)and didn't realize until I received the

5/3/2014 mail notification

5/5/2014- BON received new check

5/15/2014- Received prescriptive authority online

-Applied for DEA license

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Here is my timeline from Phila,PA. I went to La Salle University for an FNP degree and decided to take the ANCC boards.

8/31/2013- MSN degree conferred- request transcript to be sent once degree was conferred before I graduated

submitted online application to test

9/18/2013- Received Authority to test

11/07/2013- Scheduled exam and passed

submitted request to send to PA board

11/11/2013- Submitted application for CRNP license (School also submitted pharm verification and program verification)

11/22/2013- Check cashed for CRNP license

11/23/2013- Hardcopy of Board certification came in the mail

12/3/2013- Received CRNP license online

12/20/2013- received actual CRNP license in the mail

Began applying for Jobs in January, with very few responses.

2/12/2014- Phone interview

3/17/2014- Inperson interview scheduled

4/2/2014- Spoke to another manager on the phone

4/8/2014- received unofficial offer and signed collaborating agreement

4/24/2014- Prescriptive authority paperwork sent to BON

5/1/2014- delayed prescriptive authority because I accidently post dated the check to 2015 (doh)and didn't realize until I received the

5/3/2014 mail notification

5/5/2014- BON received new check

5/15/2014- Received prescriptive authority online

-Applied for DEA license

Congrats! I'm curious to know how many years of RN experience before the FNP journey?

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thanks! I had 2 years of experience when I began the FNP program and almost 6 years of SICU experience now...

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