claptrap

Those are a lot of assumptions against someone who only posted a three line comment. Being financially savvy and chasing life goals aren't really mutually exclusive. But anyway, to get back on topic, considering that I do the hiring for my own practice, that I own, I was referred here (by my hiring consultant, which actually made me chuckle a little bit until I viewed these boards) since I am looking to hire 5 NPs. Did not come here to hire directly but she told me there would be a plethora of information in regards to which schools to avoid and the like. For some reason (actually it is because we stopped allowing students from for profits to precept slightly earlier in 2017 due to multiple reasons) this topic caught my eye. It mostly just reinforces the notion to not hire and/or precept those who come from for profit schools, since back when my nurse practitioners would precept many of them they came off as rather snooty and know it all'y until the downslope of the Drunning Kruger graph slapped them in the face and they fell apart in the real world. At least according to the nps, I never really had much input into what went on, just had the assumption it would increase the applicant pool and help out the students a little bit. For anybody wondering, this is a good example of why we do not let these students into our clinic either prior to or after graduation. Without trying to cast broad generalizations, those who attend low their programs with low standards often, 1. do not have what it takes to get into a real program, 2. do not want to do the work in a real program, 3. believe that their base of knowledge is already great enough and that they can skimp through the essentials straight into practice. Before stones at cast, the people we do hire we pay well (start at 120K here in northern TX), and we treat them well and give plenty of bonuses. It is just disappointing that I literally had to hire a consultant to help me filter through the plethora of applicants and not make a costly mistake of hiring a no-go. As a family practice physician, I was rather ignorant of why this was happening until I hired her since I assumed the education was a definite filter and those who graduated automatically had a base knowledge we could build upon during training and all hirees would be open to learning but was I ever wrong.

I am surprised no one has taken into account difficulty of exams. If an exam is exceedingly difficult 65% might be a great number.

I would be less afraid of those coming and asking for help than the others who are still in school and act like they know it all. Good job for looking into extra resources, I would start with dubin. If you know the anatomy of the heart and such then it makes it a pretty easy read

This is why I hire more Pas than NPs for my practice. At least they know how to treat an animal bite because you know its hard to look it up on uptodate or one of the other resources

I think most people who are in NP school, especially the lower tier for profits think they are brilliant since the course work is so easy... until they get out and practice. People will convince themselves of anything these days lol! It is hard to take somebody seriously who says "i don't care what my tuition costs"