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I did EM boot camp twice already I will check if it qualifies.Thank you.

http://www.aanpcert.org/resource/documents/Emergency%20care%20Procedures%20%20Skills%20list%20(004).pdf

Hi all, I am looking for a program, preferably online, that would fulfill the 30 hour CE in emergency procedures skills for the new AANP ED NP certification. I would appreciate any pointers. Thank you Francisco

My daughter just took it last noc. She studied everyday for a month, I was expecting her to get around75 questions, I got 78 back on the days, however she got 250 questions. She was in there around three hours. She called me crying, hysterical believing that she had fail. I told her to do thePVU trick and she got the good pop up. She came out of the testing site around 2100 last night, it is 0900 today and her license number is up in the board of nursing site. We are in Arizona. Praise The Lord!!!! The trick works.

I have been doing for seven years and I love it. I worked in the ED as RN thus I was very familiar with the job. Good luck, you will love it.

That is exactly my opinion a bunch of nonsense requirements such as college credits?!! after being in practice for more than 10 years.

Hi Juan, I have been working in the ED for 7 years full tome now and I would like to get this certification. I keep going to the ANCC website to apply online, but the link is not active yet. Do you know when are they will start taking applications. Thanks Francisco

I was a Med Tech for 25 years,became a nurse at 45 and a FNP at 50 and I love it. Go for it.

Never mind, it is ( or was?) Delphi. If this was a degree mill and went under, I feel sorry fo this guy because he was really dedicated.

No, I work in ED as NP and there is this RN who is doing this program. He is taking the prerequisites online and he is supposed to just do the clinical rotations in the US. I will ask him the name of the school next time I see him and will let you know.

Hello all, What is the name of the medical school in Panama where you can take online prerequisites? This is an American school geared towards RN's, NP's and PA's. It has a website, but I forgot its name. Thank you

Hello, I recently graduated from Ball State University online MSN/FNP program. I highly recommend it, the only drawback is that you have to get your preceptors in the area where you live. You can check it out at http://www.bsu.edu/nursing/ . E mail me privately, if you have any questions about the program

No offense taken. However, you have to realize that the status of a profession is only a reflection of a society as a whole. Thus, I don't think is fair to compare third world countries' level of Nursing technology development with our own. In this respect, we should compare ourselves with countries with a similar development such as the UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, etc. Perhaps many of the Mexican nurses you have run into in the USA are not really nurses. I know many Mexican CNA's in this country who routinely claim to be nurses in Mexico.

I agree with Zacarias, it is not true that nurses have the same status as a garbage collectors in Mexico because there is a well structured Nursing education. I got my first degree in a Mexican university, a bachelors in medical technology, and this university offered a bachelors in Nursing at the time I was going to school. However, since there is a total lack of regulation of professions in Mexico, anyone can claim he/she is a nurse because there is no enforced licensure in place. Thus, private hospitals and clinics train their own "nurses", which contributes to the belittlement of nursing as a profession. Furthermore, in the large government hospitals, there are only a few nurses who supervise personnel trained on the job with no formal education. The NP role doesn’t exist in Mexico. I have some friends in Mexico with MSN degrees and most of them are in the field of hospital administration. I believe that the only countries with NP’s are USA, UK, Canada, New zealand and Australia.

Hi, I am in the program. Do you have any specific questions?

Yes, these three are Doctor programs. However, the only one that is considered a Doctor in Nurse Practitioner program is one at Columbia University, although they also still offer the traditional DNSc geared towards Nursing academia and research. In contrast, their DrNP (Clinical Doctorate in Nursing) is a 30 credit post masters program which includes a year of full-time residency, and the completion of a scholarly portfolio of complex case studies, scholarly papers and published articles. I think this is the first program in the country with a 100% clinical practice focus. I looked into the one at the U of A and its focus is research not clinical practice.

Honeyglazed, I don't have an answer for your question. As a matter of fact, I have a question for you: Why you haven't tested after five months of graduation? Hopefully, I will be graduating next May and I was hoping to test as soon as possible. I even emailed ANCC about applying early, but they never email me back. I guess those rumors about their deficient customer service are true. Bancho

The AMA position pertaints to all none-physician healthcare providers as indicated by the statament "the AMA respects the health care professionals who work with us in our offices and in hospitals, and who can function as physician "extenders"". Obviously, this a movement to place limits on advanced nursing practice which includes all APN's such as CRNA's and NP's. The Federation he refers to is the Federation of State Medical Boards. They came out with a similar position statement earlier this year. According to their position, APN's are acceptable if they just "remember their place" as part of a "physician directed team". In other words, APN autonomy is out of their equation.

Except from: Cooperation is critical: AMA and ASA working together August 20, 2005 American Society of Anesthesiologists Board of Directors Meeting Rosemont, IL J. Edward Hill, MD President American Medical Association Scope of Practice The work we have done together in Washington gives evidence to the AMA's rallying cry "Together we are stronger." Yet we are also working together on issues of mutual concern outside the Beltway. One of these shared concerns is ensuring appropriate scope of practice for health professionals. I have noted with interest your recent efforts to foster improved relations and dialogue with nurse anesthetists. I appreciate your desire to keep the line of communication open, but to draw the line when it comes to patient health and safety. Like you, the AMA respects the health care professionals who work with us in our offices and in hospitals, and who can function as physician "extenders" in areas where physicians are in great demand and short supply. In my rural family practice, for example, I have worked with midwives with great success. However, the operative word in the previous sentence is "with," meaning, "in cooperation with," or "as part of a physician-led team." However, not all allied health professionals see it this way. And so, like you, the AMA has grown increasingly concerned about various and troubling encroachments on physician practice. In response to these concerns, we have been working with state and national medical specialties to create what has been named the Scope of Practice Partnership. ASA has played a leading role in its formation and provided us with vital input, thanks to the work of Ron Bruns and Ron Szabat. This is what the partnership will do: It will provide financial or in kind support to federation members facing significant scope of practice battles. It will also fund studies: To determine whether allied health professionals truly fill health care voids in rural and other underserved areas. To closely examine the education and training of allied health professionals - and provide this information as a point of comparison for legislators. The partnership also will serve as an information and advocacy clearing house for the Federation on scope of practice issues. Our AMA will house and staff the partnership, as well as provide a basic level of support. Additional support will come from state and specialty societies. Each initiative - be it a state-specific concern or a research study - will be considered by the partnership on a case-by-case basis. An executive committee will: Review the issues Assist in prioritizing scope-of-practice concerns Ensure adherence to anti-trust laws AND Focus on maintaining the highest level of cooperation, coordination and consensus between federation members I know we will continue to work closely with one another on scope of practice - as well as on two other issues of critical importance to medicine: Medical liability reform and Medicare payment.

Thank you for your reply. I would like to work in family practice when I graduate. Thus, I will not be working in women's health issues that much. Since I am a male, I think the problem is my gender because many patients have reservations about somebody other than their PCP and a female nurse being in the room during their pelvic exams. Both of my preceptors this semester are physicians and all of my previous preceptors have been NP's.

I am in the last year of a part time online FNP program. I am currently doing my pediatric and women's health rotations. My OB/GYN preceptor, although he is very polite with me, does not let me assess patients by myself. Since He is always hurrying through patients, most of the time I jus sit and study in his office. I have had excellent rotations in the past, including my current pediatric rotation, where I got to do everything and sometimes I refused to do procedures outside my scope of practice. Should I just let it be? Is this a skill I can learn in practice? I would appreciate your feedback.

Hello all, After 6 years of Nursing, I am ready to take a break. Thus, I have accepted a position in a clinical laboratory as Medical Technologist. I will be paid the same rate and the work is stress free. I have done the lab for 25 years, so I can almost work it with my eyer closed. I was wondering if my work in the lab would fulfill the number of hours required to maintain my RN license or if I have to work certain amount of hours in nursing. I know, I can always check with my board, but I want a hear what you might have to say.

How are you going to fulfill the clinical component living in a foreign country?

Try http://www.bsu.edu/nursing