Jasil

Did you read my post lol? She will not be working as a NP she works in corporate healthcare administration for a Fortune 50 company. Leads a team of 55 Occ Health Nurses throughout North America. She just wants the NP foundation because she wants to learn more, but how much can you right back into corporate admin that is my question? She travels, implements safety, health, wellness programs, etc etc. Getting a NP is just IDK icing to say she has one. Emergency or Acute

So, long story short, wife is in Occ Health (corporate) BSN only. Makes over 125k+ nowadays (works from home 50% of the time), but feels "meh" and misses school. She is obviously contemplated going back to school to get MSN- (XNP). Here is my question did you actually learn any true treatment/medicine in NP school? My wife does ZERO, okay 5% medical practice these days and already realizes how much she has fallen behind, but her career has been great for the family. My (uninformed) advice was I don't really see how you will learn a lot doing a ONLINE NP program with 500 clinical hours with NO intent of quitting your job. You might learn a bit, but will quickly forget and not increase your skills if you are not practicing healthcare. Of course, I will let her go and support her either way, I just am unsure how much she will get out of it. Part of me wants to say go be EMT 1 night a week if you want a rush and want to help people because again she isn't quitting her corporate office job once she becomes a NP.

Wife's friends is a NP 34 5 years experience makes 80K Mon-Fri 8-4:30pm. RN's here make close to that sometimes more if your willing to working weekends. Her friend is a RN with 8yrs exp. at a local Hospital makes 34/hr Mon-Fri 6-230pm. The big difference is the NP salary and her friend is hourly, so take that for what it's worth. My wife is over 80K Mon-Fri flex schedule in Occ. Health.....so in a nutshell the pay may be slightly above a average RN, but is it worth going into 30K of debt for IDK?

There aren't alot of NP jobs around imo. The degrees are being pumped out like gang busters I really think nursing schools are shooting themselves in the foot here. Here locally you'll find 2-4 openings active withing the last 30 days at any given time. That's searching within a 50 mile radius. There are still quite a few nursing jobs no so with NP's....best of luck! The longer you are without a job the worse it will look on your resume are you workin as a nurse somewhere?

Wife's friend been a NP for 4 years just took a job at a local Urgent Care Clinic. It's 1 MD and now 3 NP's her pay is 78K Mon-Frid 7:30-4pm everything else she didn't know the details. My wife makes 81K as a RN, 8% 401k, and 3 weeks vacation + 13 company holidays. With 2.5-3% raises yearly and works a flex schedule 7-830am-3pm-5pm M-F.....her job is much more Safety, Admin, Osha, and Annuals then anything else. This is awfully disheartening to her. All this $$$ for school and it looks like will be a wash at best more likely a paycut!! Hopefully she will get to take of people more instead of doing admin, protocol, and procedure type of stuff.

DNP is a joke!! Clinical hours and more sciences gosh knows more theory and crap isn't needed. If it doesn't help you treat the patient it should be eliminated imo.

If that doesn't prove right there that nursing schools are becoming a dime a dozen I don't what does. Yes, the economy stinks, but really job searching for 1yr!! It will only get worse...think about this there are already more DNP nursing programs then med schools and the "Super duper Nursing Powers" just came up with this what 11 years ago? Good luck finding a job!!

There are so many nursing schools they are like puppy mills imo. You don't see PA or MD schools lowering standards still hard as hell to get into either!! So where does the problem lie?

WOW!!

70's screw that!! Maybe if it's 100% voluntary!! That's what 401k's are for.......70's shoot I'll probably be wearing a diaper by then considering Alzheimers runs strong in my family!

Go to med school!! If your GPA's are that good 1 year of pre-reqs and a solid MCAT and you can get in. Old premeds .com and studentdoctor.net nontraditional forum will enlighten you. My neighber 3 houses down is 37 and is in his 2nd year he couldn't be happier!!

78K that is just crazy!! The new bubble without a doubt is college tuition.......

Why would you say that NP education here is 23-28 months!! By the time you realize that it really sucks your 1/4 of the way through to withdraw, reapply, etc would seem to be a waste for many. Thx to the OP for posting another great example of a school that needs revamping!!

That's my point NP Student.......you sound like you are going to a good school as did Zenman. Now if you search around you'll see the horror stories of the opposite being true that is my gripe. You don't really know what you're getting so to speak. That is why I hope the model changes and it will only benefit the student and the patient. I apologize if it sounded like I was "bashing" NP's that is not the case. I just think the system needs a overall in a big way.....with these fly by night questionble programs need to be scutinized.

All I can say is there will be a point where things will get ugly in every nation not just this one. In Australia for instance the med schools have way way too many applicants because they just don't need the doctors....the population is too small. While nursing will always be needed with the amount of schools popping up everywhere it makes you wonder when the whole nation will be saturated.