NPs working in hospitals??

[elfone]

I am currently in Nurse Practitioner school in Oklahoma. I am currently working in a hospital and I have worked here for 8 years. I recently applied for a scholarship for tuition assistance and was denied because "we do not use NPs here, there is no benefit to the institution." I have given this hospital 8 years and I would love to stay in the hospital to work as an NP. There are several others in the hospital who will be graduating with CNSs and NPs who are being told that they will not have a job here after graduating because the hospital does not use nurses in those roles. I love the place where I work and I would hate to see them lose good expert nurses because of their ignorance of how advanced practice nurses could help them. So I would like to put together a proposal to present to administration the ways that a hospital could benefit from utilizing advanced practice nurses. Are there any NPs out there that are employed by hospitals and how are you being used and what is your role? Any information I can receive will help. Please do not include CNS's or NPs that work in hospitals but are employed by physicians. Thanks.

[ak127]

I am a nursing student, planning on going on to my NP (maybe CNS?) so I am already looking into this as well.

The hosptial that is helping me pay for my BSN uses NP/CNS in a very interesting role. They are working toward having at least one dual cerified NP/CNS per department. This person sees patients in the first half of the day, also acts as a resource for the RNs. The second half of the day they act more in the CNS role, conducting educational programs/inservices etc for the nurses, also acting as the liason between nursing and administration. That's how I understand it, but I will know more once I have had the opportunity to shadow one or two.