babynurse613

Hi all, Thanks for responding! I appreciate it. My program offers a separate pharmacology course for NNPs, but not PNPs. I wouldn't mind as much if any of the content was relevant to my future practice..... but it's almost exclusively focused on adult conditions that I won't be treating. So annoying. Thanks!

Hey- I am a neonatal nurse currently in a PNP primary care program. I am having a really frustrating experience taking pharmacology this semester. The course is taught by an experienced FNP, who, by her own admission, has never worked with kids. The entire course feels like it is geared towards FNP/geriatric students, particularly as PNP students only make up a handful of the class. It is beyond frustrating to spend this much time memorizing drugs/disease processes for conditions I probably won't even be licensed to treat, like BPH, CAD, arthritis, and Alzheimer's. All pediatric dosages/indications are brought up as an afterthought. When I brought my complaint to the instructor, she claimed that the nursing board wants PNP students to be familiar with drugs across the lifespan, and that peds-specific management will come up in my clinical courses. It doesn't help that I am a neonatal nurse, and haven't seen most of these drugs since nursing school. Do any other PNPs/PNP students have a similar experience? Is this standard across the board?