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  1. Reading in advance before NP program?

    drfitness replied to brokebacknurse64's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hi! Great question! I am also starting next fall and wanted a leg up as well. May I ask what is an APA

  2. An Average Day for a Psychiatric NP

    drfitness replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks for being sooo helpful! Ok..one more question...what are the salary ranges for the new ones? Is it true they make more initially than Fnp's? THis is helping me make my

  3. An Average Day for a Psychiatric NP

    drfitness replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Smitty, Thanks for the info! Also are there alot of jobs out there for Psych NP's? I have gotten on career builder and only see jobs for FNP posted. It is a big step for me to go back to...

  4. An Average Day for a Psychiatric NP

    drfitness replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would also love to hear from psyNps! I got into a FNP program in boston starting next year but am seriously considering changing over to Psych because I think that is more of a field of interest for...

  5. Long time experience RN w/new NP license ready for NP role-enough financial benefit

    drfitness replied to hello101's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks Sammy for that infor regarding the new NP salaries! Do they include benefits? If so its not so bad as I thought. Maybe the other recent grads just havent been looking as

  6. Long time experience RN w/new NP license ready for NP role-enough financial benefit

    drfitness replied to hello101's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just curious...do those new NP's in Texas have prior RN

  7. Long time experience RN w/new NP license ready for NP role-enough financial benefit

    drfitness replied to hello101's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This thread has been very informative and yet a bit scary for me as a potential NP in three yrs. Got into an NP program . It is a " direct entry" program which means you enter directly with a...

  8. Chiropractor to FNP

    drfitness replied to Chiro's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I am another chiro going into a direct entry fnp program next fall. Looks like alot of us are on the same

  9. FNP vs PsyNP

    drfitness posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I was accepted into a direct entry FNP program this fall that I decided to defer admission to for various reasons. SO now with this year off I am beginning to explore the other specialites that the...

  10. FNP vs PsyNP

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks that is so helpful to know! Do you know if there is a different between CNS in Psy vs PysNP? Two schools i am interested in offer those two respective programs! Also.. are the salaries higher...

  11. Friend MD Made Me a 50/50 Offer

    drfitness replied to sonnyluv's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I really enjoyed reading your post. I have some more questions for you. Can you please send me a pm since I cant send you one.

  12. Wages: RN vs. NP??

    drfitness replied to shannonFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    christen, rn, are you going to specialize in orthopedics with your masters? how do you like being an orthopedic nurse right

  13. Thinking about becoming a Nurse Practitioner

    drfitness replied to lmRNstudent08's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I like this thread alot and all the responses are very helpful. I agree with T.Shmitt that one should not diregard salaries when considering the nursing profession. I was accepted into a direct entry...

  14. Day in the life of psych NP/CNS

    drfitness replied to HealthyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This thead has been soo helpful to me. I am starting NP school next year and was accepted into a FNP program but am looking into Psy now!! I wanted to ask Psychlady123 if she prefers Psy to

  15. Salaries for FNP

    drfitness posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I will be starting a direct entry program in the fall. I wanted to ask if there are any FNP's out there that can give me some actual salary figures? When I go to salary.com I get one figure and when I...

  16. Salaries for FNP

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I actually got some answers to the " salaries for FNP" question from a recent grad and her FNP friends yesterday. So for this market, Boston, which does seem to have quite a bit of Nurse...

  17. Got into MSN/ MGH....now what...

    drfitness posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I was just accepted into the MGH - FNP direct entry starting in the fall !:yeah:I am very excited about this endevour however I just looked at the numbers, financially,and am having many concerns...

  18. Salaries for FNP

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Do most of the FNP's you know work as RN's? Its funny how the schools let you think that FNP's make so much money coming out. One school in particular said that some starting salaries for FNP's are...

  19. OB/GYN NP salary versus Primary Care

    drfitness replied to Sheri FNP-C's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I want to ask SherriStudent what city or even state for that matter were you getting those salary offers? I think that could make a big

  20. Got into MSN/ MGH....now what...

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hey! So I made my decision as well! I only applied to MGH because at the time it really appealed to me and still for the most part does! But I hadnt really researched the other programs out there. So...

  21. Got into MSN/ MGH....now what...

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks for the link!! I am still undecided!! How about

  22. FNP doing procedures

    drfitness replied to ArkansasFan's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I want to thank both of you , Arkansasfan and carachel2 for the posts! I am about to possibly start an NP program and I too was wondering where the gross anatomy component was and how intense we...

  23. Simmons versus MGH Direct Entry Nursing

    drfitness replied to questionableresource's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Jalin 2009 I got your message to my inbox regarding MGH since we are in the same boat! But I am unable to send an email directly back to your address( I am new to this site and a bit I.T. unsavvy!) If...

  24. Got into MSN/ MGH....now what...

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You are the only other person that I have heard from that is in the same boat! Glad its not just me with some of these fears/ concerns. By the way have you heard anything from the program as to when...

  25. Salaries for FNP

    drfitness replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks that helps