Nursing strikes again!

Just graduated AGNP program AND have several offers. What's the problem? I can't even get a test date. Why must my program be accredited, then I must submit an app to the certifying body detailing which approved program I attended, then send them official transcripts from said approved program and then have an individual from the same approved program submit a form detailing what is already in the transcripts AND THEN have an individual at ANCC/AANP review and approve what has clearly already been approved??!!?? Meanwhile, new PA grads are allowed to have everything in place so they can test as early as one week after graduation!!! I must tell an employer that I, as an NP, am the best candidate for the job "just as soon as I get my authority to test, schedule my test, pass my test, submit my results to the state & get approved by them to have the APRN license, I'll be ready to negotiate a salary"....Really?? I understand that waiting to negotiate is not mandated but you get the point. To top it all off? PA's can get additional certificates of qualification but as a basic PA can do whatever. Nurses keep pigeon holing themselves into these corners based on certifications.

The powers that be are creating the equivalent of an autocracy ruled by a gluttonous, out of touch monarch, cowering away from the real world in the corner of his lavish palace, sloppily gorging himself with research while his subjects suffer. Or.. A queen in her ivory tower, in all her finery with white powdered wig and powdered face, away from the sufferings of the dirt covered masses, surrounded by her consorts of "yes" men and hand maidens (NP Program directors) who should be telling her to change her ways but instead fill her head with nonsense. When she does hear of unrest and the true condition of her paltry subjects, she picks up her cup of contemptible DNP laced tea, sips it with a pinky extended, and simply says "Let them eat EBP."

Unless a revolution occurs, I foresee the downfall of the once great empire of Advanced Practice Nursing.

I have no choice but to encourage my child to go the PA route and it saddens me.