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I am a PMHNP- I wish there had been more Psych CNS style skills in my education, and I still work to bone up my therapy competency, as well as trying to improve my psychopharmacology knowledge. I'd do a DNP in either one, but only one of those.

I have met a few people who were admitted to UTA's online np program. I know no one personally who successfully completed it. I can not recommend it, but I'm sure there are others who do.

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Forget getting in trouble with school... In Texas academic dishonesty can get you in trouble with BON. I don't think a co-worker would approach me like this, but if they did I'd have to tell them in writing that what they are doing is academic dishonesty and fraud and if they continue to attempt to involve me in it I'm going to have to forward that to university and BON.

1. Enough to be confident in your physical assessment skills, because psychiatric patients don't always give good histories. You also need a good, broad understanding of meds because ours are dangerous and don't play well with others. You need enough nursing experience to help differentiate when psych is manifesting as physical, and when your psych symptoms are symptoms of a physical illness. How long that takes varies by nurse and clinical setting. 2. Um, yes. Because if you do not LOVE psych, this job will make you crazy. Pun intended. I'm a much better pmhnp because I was a psych nurse first. Made pmhnp school easier as well.

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It might behoove her to get her CNA at 16, but I believe that is the minimum age for that program. She may find that nursing isn't exactly what she thought it would be, and she has plenty of time to look at other fields that are just as academically challenging. Otherwise, as many others have suggested - working towards a bachelor's in science - chemistry, biology, or the likes, is likely to help her most in terms of fulfilling academic requirements and maintaining personal growth. One other caveat - you can only get financial aid in the form of grants or subsidized loans for a higher degree; so once you have an associate's degree, you can't get that type of financial aid for another associate's degree.. same for bachelor's and master's. I'm not sure if this is a consideration for your family or not, but it is something of which to be aware.

Given the option, I'd have gotten both - PA and PMHNP - because I feel the PA training is much more rigorous, med school based, and would have given me more equal footing in some conversations specifically related to pathophysiology and pharmacology... but I've done independent study to get most of the same information. I'd also have enjoyed the more generalist base. Having had to choose, I'm a nurse practitioner and proud to be one.

I am a PMHNP. I work in a forensic state hospital. The people I work with are not categorized as victims in the crimes that brought them here, but they have frequently been victims prior to becoming perpetrators.

A. Because I wanted to be a nurse practitioner; and I wake up every morning excited to come to work. I tried to get all of my kids to do it, my older 2 went to CNA school and decided nursing is *NOT* their passion. They are happy in their chosen fields, and I am happy for them. B. No - some people know what they want to do, some don't... but if you are doing it for anything other than passion for the profession and the fact you can't imagine *NOT* doing it - nursing is not for you. C. ABSOLUTELY NOT. And you didn't ask - but I'm going to add a D. Pursue your passion. Being miserable in your job, whatever it is, is not worth it. The pressure and stress you are putting on yourself sounds like it is pushing you toward depression.

I finished the RN-BSN in 2013, and my MSN-PMHNP in 2015. Both at UTA.

This - totally. I think the OP's statement was borne, originally, out of a recognition of the difference between kinesthetic learners and auditory/visual learners - in school, on the tests, it's the ability to 'learn' by seeing/reading/hearing... in clinical, it's the ability to learn by doing. So people who may never test well, because the seeing/reading/hearing pathways are more difficult for them to use, may pick up kinesthetic - procedure stuff on the first try... whereas some of the people for whom the books come easy struggle with the procedural stuff... and some people it just all seems to come easy for, but they struggle with social interaction or emotional intelligence. I know I, personally, never struggled with book stuff and rarely struggled with procedural stuff - but it took me 10 years to get anything that resembled good at politics or reading a social situation. I think if I, personally, had been a nurse at 20 - I'd have quit or been run off with pitchforks, because the combination of everything coming easy to me and not knowing why everything didn't come easy to everyone else along with my general social obtuseness would have made me absolutely insufferable.

Flip a coin, heads means RN, Tails means take the NP job for low pay. If what you get gives you a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, go the other way.

I'd probably be looking for another job - and once I had the offer in hand, submit my concerns to the DON - politely - in writing, along with my two week notice.

In Texas, we do have to have a supervising physician in order to prescribe, but not to practice 'advanced nursing'... but there is no distinct supervisory quantity requirements. New NPs and MDs have to face to face monthly, the requirements decrease with experience, and an MD can supervise FTE of 7 NPs or PAs. Assuming the prescriptive authority agreement is in place, we can RX schedule 3-5. Not sure about DME and home health, as I'm psych.