FNPdude74

Don't give up. It took me 18 months to get in. Luckily I was in the process of getting the health professions scholarship during that wait time. In regards to experience they want a new grad NP who has some RN experience. However, you can argue that ...

I think you should be okay to be honest. They're trying to keep in ICU nurses which all services have a hard time doing. NPs are in a different ballgame and we are still having difficulty with long term retention providers left and right.

Well a little history... I am in nearly 4 years into my 5 year contract as an FNP since I took a HPSP scholarship and took a HP loan. Reason why I took the loan repayment is because they lost my paperwork for HPSP and paid only the last semester of ...

If you want to get out of inpatient work and do outpatient work, FNP is for you. I love the hours and I get my weekends and holidays and I get to diagnose and treat illness.

Hello everyone I'm a 25 year old male, finishing up the FNP program on August 14 of this year and I am pretty much finished with my clinical hours and capstone project. Now I gotta study for boards. I'm going to take AANP and do you have any advice f...

Congrats! Now see them patients!

I would say get your experience as an RN if you are not yet in NP school. If possible, work and go to school as a NP student is another option. After you get at least 1 year of RN experience, you should be good to go in terms of having prior experien...

I would like to know which book is good for my family nurse practitioner, advanced patho course that I'm taking this semester. I know it's sort of late to ask since I'm already 8 weeks into the semester. My instructor decided to go with the Pathophys...

Took me 1.5 years since they have a strong need for NPs in primary care. Now with the Force Shaping of the air force of 1,499 officers, about 232 nurses are being cut because they're overmanned with 210 clinical nurses. read below. APRNs are also aff...

Pay as a 1LT was okay for a brand new NP with no RN experience. Pay and priviledges/responsibilities as a captain increased, but I'm much happier now!

I don't think anyone would pay a brand new NP with no RN/NP experience 75K starting. Not sure if you're going FNP route. RNs with at least 5 years experience, maybe, but thats even a maybe. Many places will pay lower than 75K for a brand new NP even ...

Hello everyone. I'm in the USAF and will be finishing my FNP degree this August and will stationed in Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. Can anyone fill me in on a nice and safe place to live? I plan to rent. I'm originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. I do...

You are seriously misinformed. I'm a FNP in active duty military air force. I am allowed to prescribe it all, but choose not to prescribe certain things due to need of a specialist consult. Even as a FP doc you wouldn't give T3 for hypothyroidism bec...

I'm thinking about going to Medical School. I'm 26 yo male in active duty air force with 4 years left in my committment so i cant do anything yet except take prereqs. My biggest thing was dealing with "you're not a physician" precepting issues and th...

Relax for now. Watch the Oylympics. Think sports. No nursing. :) hahaha

I would hate to say yes, you should, but then it could open up a can of worms totally unrelated to the visit. If you're using the patient centered medical home model then yeah you can go ahead and open up the can of spam all you want lol... But I'm g...

I say enough with this battle and just join 'em! It's inevitable anyway. I'm gonna do it just to also tell my friends "hey you got a law doctorate, I also got a nursing doctorate! Hey wait a minute, you have a medical doctorate, me too! but it's a nu...

Hello all, I'm a practicing FNP and was wondering after about 5 years of being an FNP in Family Practice in the USAF, would specialty practices in the civilian sector such as cardiology or any surgery specialty utilize FNPs without such specialty exp...

Well not really as of right now since I got into the USAF already and my mind is brainwashed into the air force culture :) I've always been with air force in jrotc, ROTC, and now here I am. You can always be attached to a army unit if you go air forc...

hey i'm a dude and I do care about my hair cut. I had a True GI box cut with a sleeping mouse at the top of my head and hated it. The military DOES care about even clean professional cuts. Appearance is everything in the military unfortunately. Where...

Army is like jack of all trades. I'm air force active duty and never touched a gun yet until deployment time.

You won't have to cut your hair super short. Just as long you can bun it to now allow it to touch shoulders. --->coming from an air force guy.

BCgradnurse, We WILL get that recognition. Well... That's my future vision anyway. :) BTW, I get uncomfortable now when new (not even done with residency yet) physicians at work described us as midlevels and "subordinates to physicians". So I said: ...

I thought being a FNP was prestigious before I started the FNP program. Now I'm practicing as a FNP and it's not as prestigious as some may think at work, but it sounds prestigious when you tell someone outside the clinic, "I'm a nurse practitioner"....

I apologize, I meant to post this post in this threat and not the other military thread since the APRN role is the focus here. Mods, please either move or delete the other post. Thanks and sorry again. I got the USAF HSPS scholarship for one year and...