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1. What are the BEST and WORST States to practice as an NP?

   belairnp replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   My suggestion would be to go to the source: the california board of nursing here's a URL for NP practice regs, etc. http://www.rn.ca.gov/regulations/np.shtml hope this helps! Southern California...

2. What are the BEST and WORST States to practice as an NP?

   belairnp replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Just a quick correction for the link that was provided by sirI for the Pearson report on NP practice. http://www.webnp.net/ajnp08.html then you can click on the "download the pdf version" if you want...

3. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

   belairnp replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

   Just Cause, (wow...could I bend your ear with my opinions on the profession that you are entering!!!!) Point number 1: The positive benefit of DNP as entry level degree for NP's. Caution i'm about to...

4. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

   belairnp replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

   The nursing profession has had a debate going about education levels for entry into practice about becoming an RN and now on becoming an NP. There has not been any resolution to the RN educational...

5. discussion regarding education of NP (DNP) and PA compared to MD/DO

   belairnp replied to RN to Medschool's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Mike, No..they are not the reason. As I stated in my post, my reasons for not continuing the journey to MD/DO were related to youthful impulsivity and short-term orientation vs long range vision. The...

6. discussion regarding education of NP (DNP) and PA compared to MD/DO

   belairnp replied to RN to Medschool's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I realize that I am VERY late in joining this forum discussion and perhaps my comments will have already been stated and addressed. That being said.... I have been licensed as an RN for 20 yrs, the...

7. Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

   belairnp replied to jstuben's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I realize that I am VERY late in joining this forum discussion and perhaps my comments will have already been stated and addressed. That being said.... I have been licensed as an RN for 20 yrs, the...