PMHNP Vs. Psychiatry MD

[ICantthinkofagooddisplayname]

My question is for Psych NPs. If you could do it again would you go the NP route or go through med school and become a psychiatrist? I have an undergrad in psych and a nursing degree so the most obvious path would be PMHNP. However, with the bar being so low for getting into NP school I fear that this area will easily become over saturated as so many other areas have become. I would also think that having an MD opens more doors. Do you feel like you have ample opportunities or do you feel like you'd have more in you were a psychiatrist? Thanks for you input!

[DrCOVID, DNP]

Am I missing something? You have nurse in your title. I mean this gotten to a just developed to a point where I just think you are stupid. You are trying to berate someone who spent an additional 4 years in school to get a terminal degree like so many other professions have. Also the fact you don't want to finish what you started yourself, and support this profession and lobby for more pay and independence, then sorely I don't know what to say to you anymore. Also don't know what nursing school you went to as we had to do return demonstrations and come up with care plans based on patient scenario. That is more application. Again, go back and learn the levels...

Didn't send you an ad for anything, as surely if you can't search in Google what basic levels of learning are how would you learn from any ad. For the nth time I never said it was easy. Any educated person knows "ease" is a relative term. I don't think you know what washed out means. I'm barely 32, go to a gym every other day and hike on the weekends and watch my diet carefully. I think if I listen to your advice and the others in this thread I would sooner arrived more washed out than anything. Talk about one track minds and inflexibility. This is like something out of the DSM.

I am just beside myself its like all the nurses that posted here don't respect other types of doctoral degrees. As if MD is the only doctor. Continue pissing on this thread bc I'm not coming back to try to educate or try explain myself, it is clearly a waste of time and too many deaf ears on 'washed out' NPs that don't wanna put in more time of effort.

[Tegridy]

1 hour ago, adammRN said:

Am I missing something? You have nurse in your title. I mean this gotten to a just developed to a point where I just think you are stupid. You are trying to berate someone who spent an additional 4 years in school to get a terminal degree like so many other professions have. Also the fact you don't want to finish what you started yourself, and support this profession and lobby for more pay and independence, then sorely I don't know what to say to you anymore. Also don't know what nursing school you went to as we had to do return demonstrations and come up with care plans based on patient scenario. That is more application. Again, go back and learn the levels...

Didn't send you an ad for anything, as surely if you can't search in Google what basic levels of learning are how would you learn from any ad. For the nth time I never said it was easy. Any educated person knows "ease" is a relative term. I don't think you know what washed out means. I'm barely 32, go to a gym every other day and hike on the weekends and watch my diet carefully. I think if I listen to your advice and the others in this thread I would sooner arrived more washed out than anything. Talk about one track minds and inflexibility. This is like something out of the DSM.

I am just beside myself its like all the nurses that posted here don't respect other types of doctoral degrees. As if MD is the only doctor. Continue pissing on this thread bc I'm not coming back to try to educate or try explain myself, it is clearly a waste of time and too many deaf ears on 'washed out' NPs that don't wanna put in more time of effort.

I think you confuse your inability to put together meaningful sentences as us not understanding you. You did send an ad to some med school tutor thing on Youtube. It was pointless. The way you use the comprehension hierarchy is in a way that makes no sense. Not due to our lack of understanding but due to failure to communicate a useful definition of what it is.

Of course I Didn’t go back and get a DNP. It’s a near pointless degree that adds mostly nothing to advanced practice. And I won’t support more independent practice of APRNs with the current lack of educational requirements of most schools.

The ability to come up with care plans is not a high level of thinking. And if you don’t think physicians have to come up with “plans” or medical decision making then you are silly. If you think care plans are difficult try engineering or medicine. Or are those just too low on the hierarchy for you.

I wouldn’t expect you to understand this as a bedside nurse as you say you are so we will leave it at that.

[ICantthinkofagooddisplayname]

For those that have turned my thread into a *** contest, STOP! It's gross and rude. If you don't have anything constructive to add to the conversation then move along. Please find something better to do with your time than going back and forth. EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION, and we can disagree without being *** to each other. ***

[dianah, ASN]

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