If you have passed any of the certifying NP exams, does this mean that if you choose to work as a staff RN (for example in the hospital as a bedside nurse, not an NP) and are named in a lawsuit, that you can be held to the standards of an NP even though you are employed as a staff RN?
I have heard this mentioned a few times from colleagues who have become NPs and was trying to find info on this but have found none.
Just wondering if any of the NPs here have heard of the same thing.
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If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP and carry individual Liability Insurance, you will be required to be covered under the highest level of education you received, which is NP.
If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP, you are held to the highest level of the standard of care which is NP.
If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP and carry individual liability insurance, you will be required to be covered under the highest level of education you received, which is NP.
If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP, you are held to the highest level of the standard of care which is NP.
Actually may depend on the states Nurse Practice Act as well as the auspices one was hired under. Contracts or hiring agreements can stand up in court; this is not to say in the court of law ones advance practice degree would not come up. I would also add that if a hospital hired you as an RN and you were practicing as an APRN that could be another legal problem. Probably a very cloudy situation and one reason why I am more than happy to pay the higher fees...
Actually may depend on the states Nurse Practice Act as well as the auspices one was hired under. Contracts or hiring agreements can stand up in court; this is not to say in the court of law ones advance practice degree would not come up. I would also add that if a hospital hired you as an RN and you were practicing as an APRN that could be another legal problem. Probably a very cloudy situation and one reason why I am more than happy to pay the higher fees...
OKay but then you got this issue... the whole reason I want to work as a RN for a few months is because it will take time to apply and get a FNP license in that state, so if you aren't licensed as a NP in that state (but in another state I am) but as a RN in that state, are you still held to FNP standards?
If you have passed any of the certifying NP exams, does this mean that if you choose to work as a staff RN (for example in the hospital as a bedside nurse, not an NP) and are named in a lawsuit, that you can be held to the standards of an NP even though you are employed as a staff RN?
I have heard this mentioned a few times from colleagues who have become NPs and was trying to find info on this but have found none.
Just wondering if any of the NPs here have heard of the same thing.
Thanks! :)
Believe it or not, but in TX we are held to the higher standard per BON rules. This is why I will never work as a RN.
Believe it or not, but in TX we are held to the higher standard per BON rules. This is why I will never work as a RN.
Well, its nice, and in Texas there are plenty of NP jobs available.
In Colorado its different, the pay is low, often the same or less than what a RN makes and that is IF you can even find a NP job, in Colorado.
So what do you recommend? If people don't want to move they should just stop working as a RN once they graduate? Or they have to get out of nursing?
Reality is, esp. in Colorado there are plenty of NPs working as RN's for the plain reason, lack of jobs!
I know several NPs that continue to work as floor nursing or teach BSN clinicals or such odd jobs, just because they can't find a NP job and have families or don't want to leave CO.
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If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP and carry individual Liability Insurance, you will be required to be covered under the highest level of education you received, which is NP.
If you are working as an RN, but licensed to practice as an NP, you are held to the highest level of the standard of care which is NP.