Betty004

Hi all, I am an FNP student and am starting clinicals. I was wondering what some of the advantages/disadvantages of precepting with an MD versus FNP are? Does anyone prefer one over the other? Thanks!

Hey all, Thanks for the comments. Yes, standards def. need to be a little higher. I just want to clarify that I don't go to an online school, but an actual B&M institution. I am more than content with the program. I just don't see how an online program could be equivalent to an actual B&M. Who are the instructors teaching the courses? ( After every quarter, we evaluate the instructors. For my clinical course, we evaluate after every session). I go to school twice a week, but one of those days consist of an 8-5 day with only an hr break. The second day ends at 12. Coming next quarter, both days will be 8-5 with only hr breaks in b/w, not to mention a day or two of clinicals. Ever since the start of this quarter, this has been the first week I have yet to be tested. Granted, papers were due instead but I will take papers over exams any day! What about pap smears? Do you trial them on patients first? We have actual pap/prostate human "models" that come in for us to learn on. These are the same models that come in to teach medical students at different universities. Sim labs are not the same. I have yet to even touch a sim man since my days as undergrad! Everyone in my program has either dropped to part time status, or quit entirely. It does sound a little absurd, but I think it trains us to be adequate and competent. I just wish this was the case across the board, then maybe NPs would have a better name, or even a name at all. NPs freakin deserve it! I am sorry if I am coming off on the wrong foot. My program, like any, definitely has its MAJOR FLAWS. It's just that I know of a couple people who are doing online NP programs, but as staff RN they are the scariest bunch of people I've seen. Even the families they work with will refuse them as their nurse for the day, but yet these online schools has accepted them to actually diagnose and prescribe? I hope I am wrong about them, but I just wish that our profession would take a step back and be more serious just like our nation is serious with our MDs. How come we don't see med school being completed online? Do you think that will be the wave of the future as well?

I just want to know if anyone out there agrees that online nursing schools, especially for an MSN/NP program discredits our profession? Yes, online makes it easier for people to access and attend, but where is the countless amt. of didactic and clinical hrs one has to go through to earn entitlement in diagnosing, prescribing and teaching. The NP program I am attending now is a physical institution attached to one of the biggest named hospitals in the nation. All I know is that it's kicking my butt, but I don't think I would get the same experience as if it were online. No, I am not jealous of people who earned their degrees via an easier route because I wish more physical schools would open for NP education with an extensive curriculum. With that, I understand why patients would decline care from some NPs. I want the nursing profession to grow a great deal ( because it definitely deserves more appreciation and deference than its' given), but with the amt of online schools being thrown out there it discredits it. Online programs tell me, anyone with a computer can go through it. What happened to an interview process, GRE requirements??? I think nursing should take a step back and raise their standards so we aren't thought of as just people who "open" rooms for the docs or pick up linen for the ill. I believe the nursing profession just doesn't have high enough standards. I am not trying to start controversy/debacle but I want to hear opinions.

Hey Hannah, No I haven't received anything, but via a friend, Debbie did mentioned that it would be coming in four weeks and this was probably the middle of April when asked. By the looks of it, I am hoping early May so we can all start planning. I only know of two other people from CHLA that were accepted. The two people that were rejected, did they apply later? I think there was one girl that had just made the app deadline and she was still waiting on a decision last I heard. As far as the roommate situation, can't really help you there. I am sorry if I can't be more of help =(. If I get any new news, I will surely pass it your way. BTW, have you done the assessment prereq? It's scary to think this is all going to happen in just a few months! AHHHH. Betty

I was also accepted for UCLA's FNP program this coming fall. I work over Children's Hospital LA and from what I know everyone who has applied to UCLA's NP program has gotten in, whether it be family, peds, acute, etc. Good luck to you!