Corey Narry MSN, RN, NP

California has very specific educational requirements for pre-licensure/RN education. Many US-educated nurses from other states and international-educated nurses have been told of deficiencies in their nursing program in the past and have been denied...

Federal jobs like the ones for NP's at the VA tend to be lower than let's say my job as an employee of a state-run institution. I also see that some of the County jobs are higher than mine. Salaries across the states in federal agencies are also not ...

I only work in-patient and Neurology is one of the departments where I see providers still wear lab coats (most others wear sweater/jackets with embroidered logos for their specialty). You could potentially wear the sweater/jackets as some of them do...

I'm in NorCal too but work as an NP so take my "observation" with a grain of salt. I work full time at an academic medical center and was working per diem at a Kaiser facility. The nurses seem happier in the academic medical center and has more supp...

I think you'll be fine. I have been audited before by AACN (for my CCRN) and was able to send in all the CERP categories at the last minute. I am active with AACN so audits are random (I have been part of committee with NTI, joined task force for wri...

I can speak to your questions since I actually worked in PM&R the first year after graduating from an ACNP program. I enjoyed the interview process with the group and the role involved in-patient management (in a free standing acute rehab hospit...

Is this a school project? LOL. Well, the historical beginnings of both professions took different turns through the years to what it is now, hence, the structure and training is different. PA's started at Duke in 1965 when a physician there conc...

Actually that one-year path to PMHNP is a post-master's plan only for those who are already NP's in another specialty or have a CNS designation in another specialty. It's a joint program by UCSF, UCLA, and UC Davis. Seems like they would have competi...

I've always held an opinion that the accrediting bodies (CCNE and maybe ACEN as well) are to blame. Be aware though that there is a change to CCNE standards in 2018 (see link below) and it does now ask that schools ensure adequate resources and clini...

I think we certainly need to slow down the entry of more and more new NP's who won't be able to join an increasingly saturated workforce. When I was a student back in 2002, the ACNP program I attended can only take 30 students a year...and even with ...

I totally agree. I precept ACNP students. Even in reputable institutions that arrange preceptors, I find it inadequate when students in Acute Care programs are only showing up to clinicals 12-hr shifts here and there. I know it can be a big sacrifice...

I think everyone knows that. My point was and this is my opinion, someone who took undergrad science courses, even A/P, must be retaken if they were 20 years old to enter advanced courses in the NP Program which are frankly in and of itself another i...

True to an extent. California is an outlier here...we have schools that are CCNE accredited but not CA BRN approved. Case being Charles R Drew University in LA. Their grads can get licensed as NP's in California because they can sit for the national ...

Right and the term has been used to denote substandard schools that have predatory practices of recruitment such as the "for profit" programs. The truth is "for profits" are not even that known for handing out diplomas so easily...in most of the comp...

I would gladly repeat a course that would help me understand advanced concepts including anatomy and physiology if I have to especially if it's been too long since I took the course. Nurses commonly practice in a specialized manner so much so that th...

Did I say that in my post? if there was even an implication of that, it wasn't intentional.

The vast majority of NP programs are CCNE accredited...even Walden, Phoenix, Capella, Chamberlain, schools that fall under the "for profit" designation. That speaks to the wide range of standards that exist between all schools that have been accredit...

The term is actually not appropriately used in this thread. Traditionally, diploma mills are entities that promise a degree or diploma for a fee that is illegitimate or fake, hence, useless. Graduates of such programs are illegally claiming a creden...

I have no beef with the question about who the best candidate for an NP career is. In fact, I think if anything NP programs welcome non-traditional students from diverse backgrounds and that can only be a good thing. However I do have a problem with ...

Debating demographic qualities that set us all apart such as experienced RN vs Direct Entry applicant vs new grad going straight to NP will always be subject to individual variances that would be tough to quantify. Sure, everyone has anecdotal eviden...

Appreciate the poem! I love the Spanish language but unfortunately, I was born and spent a great deal of my young life in the Philippines where the colonizers didn't teach us Spanish and the friars who converted us to Christianity attempted to learn ...

Dominican University in San Rafael, CA (north of the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area) offers completion programs for foreign nursing graduates and I assume the same would apply to out-of-state nurses who did not meet CA BRN's clinica...

I went to a state university. It has a medical school (MD), a Pharm D program, degrees in rehabilitation sciences (PT, OT, SLP), CRNA, CNM, all NP tracks including NNP and PNP-AC, and believe it or not, PA as well. It is surrounded by a medical cent...

I'm somewhat familiar with those schools as a California resident. Sonoma State is part of the Cal State U system. They offer just an FNP program which makes sense given that Sonoma County is considered rural. The program is highly web-based and the...

AANP doesn't have control of the operation of NP programs just as AMA has nothing to do with the accreditation of medical schools. The responsibility for accreditation of all types of nursing degrees including NP programs lies under the American Asso...