Agrippa

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1. Top Five Nursing Schools Ranked

   Agrippa replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in School, College Programs

   The methodology College Atlas used: http://www.collegeatlas.org/the-a-list-methodology.html To me, this "ranking" means little. People like rankings, it sells magazine and increases view counts on...

2. Why do nurses love for profit schools?

   Agrippa replied to futureeastcoastNP's topic in School, College Programs

   A lot of people's ego's get bruised, but as others have already commented, it comes down to convenience and low standards of admission. People will start throwing in subjective anecdotes of how X...

3. UPenn Direct Entry BSN/MSN 2014

   Agrippa replied to mewei's topic in School, College Programs

   Thx, this must only be for the accelerated bsn/msn

4. UPenn Direct Entry BSN/MSN 2014

   Agrippa replied to mewei's topic in School, College Programs

   What do you guys use to check the status of your application/admission decisions? Is it this?

5. UPenn Direct Entry BSN/MSN 2014

   Agrippa replied to mewei's topic in School, College Programs

   Is anyone already a nurse/have their BSN and applying to the MSN program? It seems like there are many who are doing the accelerated bsn/direct entry MSN program but not many who are applying to the...

6. What is your take home pay as Nurse Practitioner?

   Agrippa replied to hik9258's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I just want to thank everyone for their participation. This really does help professionals make sure that their compensation is fair and in line with the market in their area. Ignorance of this...

7. Question for PMHNPs

   Agrippa replied to Ddestiny's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Big part of working in any helping profession and especially in mental health, is working with your own emotions. To be a great practitioner (whether it is as a pmhnp, psychiatrist, Clinical PhD...

8. Equal pay for equal work?

   Agrippa replied to MILOBRI's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

   I think it all depends on what you want from your life, ei family, whether you're mobile, finances, etc. In terms of finances - it depends on what specialty you want to go to. If you want to do...

9. On line DNP

   Agrippa replied to Jenlab's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

   I'm sure there are plenty of Online DNP programs that would love to take your tuition payments. The question is - what is your end goal. They have DNPs for administration as well as for Clinical...

10. Best schools for DNP-psychiatry?

    Agrippa replied to DrZaphod's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Honestly, I don't think there is a great way to determine which programs are great. If you use USNews report's ranking, you'll see that the methodology they use is very...qualitative. Furthermore...

11. Credibility of Walden University

    Agrippa replied to angie16451's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That's my point ...there is no national set standard for NPs for licensure or education for that matter. Some NP programs have 45 credits and 500 hr clinical req, some have double that. Yes, I know...

12. Credibility of Walden University

    Agrippa replied to angie16451's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Its not a matter of a program's actual quality. I'm sure there are great quality all online programs from non-profit schools. Its a matter of perception of quality by decision makers. Whats very...

13. Credibility of Walden University

    Agrippa replied to angie16451's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would never hire an np who received her/his degree from either

14. Will you get a job not matter what school you received NP degree?

    Agrippa replied to sav3alif3RN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If you had a candidate who went to say your state's flagship university's NP program vs. Walden/Phoenix/whatever other online university - who would you hire. I know that I would hire the one that...

15. MD Hourly Wage - Information is Power

    Agrippa replied to Agrippa's topic in Maryland Nursing

    Also, btw, new grads at UMMC start at