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Thank you to all for your participation. I have quickly met and exceeded the number of participants needed. I am looking forward to data analysis. Once analysis is complete, I will be posting a brief summary of findings. Again, thank you for your participation. Your feedback on your experience as a newly qualified registered nurse in practice is extremely valuable.

Thank you for posting this and for the support from allnurses.com.

From my experience various schools have a variety of requirements. Different positions are opening up all the time. In my opinion (as an educator for 6 years and seeing new educators walk into work every academic year) the important considerations for landing the position are: experience in nursing, experience in teaching, and your degree level. I think it is best to have the most well rounded experience in nursing practice that you can have. That certainly makes you more marketable.

Are you a registered nurse? Please consider participating in my research study if you: -have 2 years or less of experience -are working or have worked in bedside clinical practice You are invited to take part in a research study about nursing career satisfaction and turnover intention. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects that a transition to practice program has on satisfaction with nursing as a career and retention of the newly qualified registered nurse in bedside care. This study is being conducted by a researcher named Amanda Machesky, who is a doctoral student at Walden University. You might already know the researcher as a registered nurse or nurse educator, but this study is separate from that role. Declining or discontinuing will not negatively impact your relationship with the researcher or access to services. This study is voluntary. You are free to accept or turn down the invitation. Nobody will treat you differently if you decide not to be in the study. If you decide to be in the study now, you can still change your mind later. You may stop at any time. Participation is expected to take approximately 15-20 minutes. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate. This is a completely anonymous survey. Please click the survey link below to participate. Survey Participation Thank you for your time.

Walden University has a RN to MSN-FNP program. Here is a link to the program: RN to MSN Track | MSN - Family Nurse Practitioner | Walden University I earned my MSN in Nursing with a focus in education and am currently working on a PhD in Nursing from Walden. An affordable school of high quality with great support. I have enjoyed my time there. I think it is a good idea that you are looking now and planning towards the future. You can start searching for schools to find out about the criteria for admission. Best of luck to you!

This testing practice seems pretty standard. I had 1 min per question when I was in undergrad (2002-2006) and am now a professor and follow the same rules. ATI testing is programmed as 1 min per question (unless you have accommodations and require extended test time). It's best to look forward to the end testing goal which is NCLEX ... where if you use the max amount of time for the max potential number of questions it averages out to be 1 min and 15 seconds per question. If the amount of test time is too fast then perhaps you should consider being tested for the need of reasonable accommodations.

Can you partner with a local school/college/university?

Agree about "under your license" ... however I think this would best be termed as delegation. Which if the RN that is licensed would inappropriately delegate to someone that is not competent then that is where the issue would lie.

Please let us know how it goes. I have not taken it but am interested in doing so once I am done with my doctorate.

I am currently in a Nursing PhD program! I love it!!! I started out in a DNP program (because it was fully covered by my employer) and it just wasn't the right degree for me. So I decided to enroll in a Nursing PhD program which would cost me ... but I am happy to have made the switch. I am learning so much about myself, nursing, students, people, etc. It truly is an all around rewarding experience. I started in June 2015. I am finished with course work and am now in the dissertation phase (currently writing my Proposal). It hasn't always been an easy journey. I am enrolled as a full time student. I am also a single mom. And I work full time for a university that expects 40+ hours served on campus weekly. I am hoping ... fingers crossed ... to be done in December! I understand being scared to death! I felt the same way starting. And I have felt the same way throughout the different transitions of the journey. Now after 2 years and being in dissertation I would have to say that I am not necessarily scared to death anymore ... just keep thinking to myself ... really? Me? I'm doing this? And I'm successful?! I can't believe it. Best of luck to you! You can do anything you set your mind to. I just takes a lot of mental energy and time dedication.

I have helped participate in admission interviews as a nursing faculty member before. We had a rubric but I do not work for that university any longer and unfortunately do not have access. We had a question situated around their volunteer history (since that was a main focus of the mission of the school). We also had a question about what drew them towards the nursing profession (everyone has some interesting story to tell there). That was a nice question other than asking "Why do you want to be a nurse?" And we also had a question about what experiences did the person have that they felt prepared them for the upcoming experience of nursing school (ie – life, academic, work). Several other generics but these are really what helped us to get to know the candidate as best we could in the given interview time frame.

Thanks for the reply! If you were to be offered compensation, what would you be the most interested in receiving?

Time management certainly is a valid concern. Just keep your overall end life-goals in mind. There have been plenty of times where I would rather be doing something else that wasn't related to career preparation but ultimately I had to put my nursing career first. Completely up to you though ... best of luck in the decision making process.

I am currently a full-time faculty member and this is just my personal opinion and experience. Depending on the position and school, the DNP may be enough. Many postings I have seen if they even mention anything about the CNE it was preferred rather than required. In my opinion - I think that either or would be a good idea if you are willing to invest your time, energy, and money. I would think that the NLN CNE certification would me more globally accepted since it is well regulated and standardized by the NLN. However, a PM certificate could be beneficial as well. I think it would be important to look more into the specific positions you are interested in applying for and reviewing their qualifications. Some additional training specific to education may be very beneficial since you have a DNP and no focused experience on education. I am sure that you have fantastic clinical qualifications and adding any type of certificate or certification specific to education will be even more enticing. Best of luck to you!

Hi LilyRN99, This is a difficult situation no doubt and you are not the first and won't be the last to face this dilemma. It is important for you to evaluate your own situation (personal, career, and financial) and make the decision you feel is best for you ... not what the LPN program expects of you. I have faced this situation. My decision was to go ahead and take the risk of putting my part-time career as a new instructor first and foremost. I made the decision to do that because I did not have the responsibility of a family, my husband was supportive both mentally and financially, and I thought that if I wanted to end up making it in the area of nursing education this would be a risk I would have to take. It ended up serving me well. I am now doing well and have a steady full-time nursing education contract year to year and currently am working on my PhD so that I can begin the promotion and tenure track at my university. I have worked with many part-time nursing instructors that come and go semester to semester. Some take a few semesters off and then return later when the numbers are right and we need them. This is not all that uncommon - seems to be the nature of clinical education in my area. Best of luck to you and I hope you can make the best decision for yourself that you feel comfortable with soon.