Primary Care to inpatient?

[amalay, MSN, RN]

Hi, does anyone have some good advice for a relatively new (1.5 years experience so far) pediatric primary care NP that is interested in ER or inpatient work? What would you recommend as the best pathway? Back to school? Residency? A job that will train me?

[BostonFNP, APRN]

What is your board certification? PNP?

[amalay, MSN, RN]

Yeah I'm board certified as a primary care PNP; and the program I went through really did not have any inpatient clinical rotations.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

Yeah I'm board certified as a primary care PNP; and the program I went through really did not have any inpatient clinical rotations.

And you want to work in the ED or hospital in pediatrics? I think either way you will need a post-masters certificate program to get acute care experience/certification or find a hospital with a structured orientation or residency program.

[phillycpnp-pc, MSN, RN, NP]

Do you have inpatient pediatric experience as a RN? In my area one of the children's hospitals does not yet require peds/acute care certification but they look at your nursing background and your NP experience. For example, I have a friend that works at Boston Children's in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and her degree was peds primary care and she got the job because she has years of experience in a PICU setting.

The other Children's Hospital near requires peds-acute care certification in certain inpatient areas (PICU, ED, CCU,etc) But is still okay with peds primary care for inpatient medical floors (Nephrology, endocrine, pulmonary, etc). I think it depends what state your in and what type of position. But still not a bad idea to consider a peds acute care post-masters program in the future.