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  1. We have three rooms and 12 bays. We have one nurse per room (with a tech to help with specimens), three to admit, three to recover and 1-2 float. That seems to work pretty well for around 40-45...
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    Endo Center vs Hospital

    That is one way of looking at it. The other way is that in a business you want to have the best. Time is money and if you have better nurses then you can do more cases and make more money. In the...
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    math/science pre-reqs NP vs PA

    Mostly a difference in the model. PA school follows the medical model. You have to have a good understanding of pharmacology, pathophys and disease process. You not only need to understand the drug,...
  4. I'll give a somewhat cynical outsiders view of this. I largely disagree that the climb to Doctor is solely to play the good old boys club. When looking at the DNP you have to look at who benefits. 1....
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    math/science pre-reqs NP vs PA

    This is from your area, most PA programs are similar: A minimum of 16 semester units of biology are required including human anatomy*, human physiology* and microbiology*. The remaining units can be...
  6. Less than 2%. If you take 35 per year x 35 years you end up with around 1000. There are around 75,000 total PAs ever trained. I would also guess that like most PA programs the early years of the...
  7. They still list their class size as 70. But it is listed as 70 students every other year, so I would interpret this as 35 per year. I am not sure if they take all 70 at once and some finish the...
  8. There are a couple of issues here. One is that ARC-PA does not have a mission to promote PA educational opportunities. Their interest is to protect the public and the PA profession by defining and and...
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    Ideas for finding clinical sites.

    Just to add a little fuel to the fire, to be licensed in California, a school must follow a long list of criteria most of which are taken right from the NONPF guidelines:...
  10. I'll update Denver Regis FNP - No Regis NNP - Yes University of Colorado FNP - Maybe (person I got ahold of was unsure and didn't know who to ask). University of Colorado PNP -
  11. Actually I'm kind of confused. Who left, the CRNAs, the AAs, or the Anesthesiologists? David Carpenter,
  12. Only you can tell what is best for you. The UND program is accredited and that will be good for five years unless something changes dramatically. If they have a good reputation locally then that is...
  13. Exactly. I believe there is a thread on this. Part of the educational mission is to provide sufficient resources to complete the educational process. You are still allowed to make your own...
  14. Unfortunately that is not completely true. This is from the administrative section: A3.06 The program should not require that students supply their own clinical sites or preceptors for...
  15. i didn't say any education. if he gets an hour or two in the appropriate language that will probably do. in our hospitals the dm educators see them the same day and do the inpatient teaching. they go...
  16. you are going to need a bachelors to get into und. the issue will be timing. most programs close their application process in september to november. some will allow you to complete pre-reqs after but...
  17. Insulin teaching doesn't usually affect the length of stay. You can do everything past the admission as an outpatient. What really matters for the patient to go home is are they stable enough. While a...
  18. Here is a pretty typical list of pre-reqs. College Algebra or higher mathematics, no fewer than 3 semester hours; English Electives, no fewer than 6 semester hours; Human Anatomy and Physiology, no...
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    Direct Entry GRADUATE NPs

    I wouldn't worry so much about defending yourself. Once you have more than a year or so under your belt no one really cares what type of degree you have. You have a proven track record in giving care....
  20. I always forget about the UND program. Partly because it is such an outlier. It is the only program to require you to have a physician preceptor. It is the only program to have a substantial online...
  21. Could be. I have noticed that some practices tend to go one way or another and some have a mix. In our practice we have four PAs. We have looked at NPs but either they don't have the right skill mix...
  22. There are a lot of nurses that feel the way you do. We had four RN's in our class. One of the areas of medical experience that any PA school will accept is nursing. Ultimately the decision between NP...
  23. At the risk of seriously derailing this thread. I find Nursing Theory intellectually dishonest. Nursing theory grew out of the desire to show the worth of nursing versus medicine. I have no problem...
  24. Not PhD, DNAP in 2015....
  25. My only real experience with nursing theory was my one class that I took. That pretty much ended any desire I had to go into nursing. As far as NPs in practice, pretty much everyone uses a SOAP...