any Nurse Practicioners from NYC here?

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I'm an ER RN 7 months out of school. I have a bachelors in bio and an associates in nursing. I really want to become an NP but have never worked with an NP. I am looking for a bridge program that would allow me to bridge my bachelors in bio into a masters in nursing (so far I know only of Pace University that offers this...) and am looking for school that offer this. I also would like to talk to some NP's about their job. Ask them exactly what their job consists of and avdvice on FNP vs ANP. All the MDs at work push me to become an MD (as they say I am still young at 25). Thats not a possibility for me. NP seems to be as close as I'll be able to get. From my understanding an NP combines their knowledge as an RN with knowledge of medicine to treat and diagnose diseases. I'd really love to observe an NP in action anywhere in the NYC area. Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance.

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NYU's masters program accepts students with an associate's in nursing and a bachelor's in any other area. You would probably get right in.

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Specializes in PICU, Peds Ambulatory, Peds LTC.

NYU is a great school but it's too expensive. $900/credit. Yikes!!!!

Hunter College (CUNY) is also a great school and far less expensive. They have an ANP, PNP, GNP programs.

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very expensive I agree. But you get what you pay for. As an undergrad I've been to 3 Cuny/State schools and then went to a private nursing school....big difference...you get what you pay for.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

I'm not an NP, but just wanted to let you know that Columbia also offers the type of program that you're looking for. Yes, it is Crazy expensive, but there are usually options to help finance an education like that. I also heard that Stony Brook has an on-line NP program (though you have to set up the clinicals, etc.. yourself), but i'm not sure if its a 'bridge' type of program like you would need.

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Stony Brook has BSN to ANP/FNP and they have a program for non-nursing BA with Associates RN to FNP/ANP.

Try going through your local hospital nursing ed dept to see if you can shadow NPs in the different settings.

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very expensive I agree. But you get what you pay for. As an undergrad I've been to 3 Cuny/State schools and then went to a private nursing school....big difference...you get what you pay for.

This is true most of the time... but not always. I went to a private nursing school (LIU- brooklyn campus) and now I am at Nassau Community College and Nassau's program is 100x better than LIU- and waaayyyy cheaper. LIU had about a 40% passing rate and their program was threatened of being shut down- Nassau had 100% passing rate for their last graduating class. And they are very well known as having a great nursing program. Many other community schools also have really high passing rates and are known as being good programs. While I have no doubt that NYU and Columbia have great programs, you can still get a good education in a CUNY/SUNY. I heard Stony Brook's program is really good too. And I thought the same thing- you get what you pay for- but LIU should have been paying me to go to their school!!! I would NEVER recommend anyone to apply to LIU's nursing program!

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