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Thank you everyone for your responses. I will have my CNL/MSN in 5/2009. One part of me wonders if I should become a nurse practitioner. I am not sure how long it would take though. jy

Did you do the CNS first or the APN? If you did the CNS first, how long to get the APN? Thank you for answering me. jy

:redbeatheI will have earned my MSN in 5/2009. People tell me it would take one year only to get my NP. Is this true? Would you be a NP again if you had to do it over?

Nutella, THANK YOU SO MUCH. i am printing your reply. i may attach it to my paper. it is so interesting and it is first-hand info.----not just the P.R. stuff. i wish you the very best. jy

Dear Nutella, Both sites work. I will go to my hospital tomorrow and print the info. there. (My hospital lets me print stuff for school for free. Isn't that excellent? Nutella, I am trying to contact a nurse in CA. who is German. With your permission, I would like to ask you some questions... Are you German? In your opinion, are most Germans happy with the healthcare system? How does the use of technology compare to the U.S.? Do you like practicing here better or there better? How are nurses perceived in Germany? How are the wages? Are there nurse practitioners? I have worked the last ten years in critical care. How does critical care compare to that found in Germany? Are elderly patients subjected to such aggressive treatments there as here? Where do you think care, in general, is better? The articles I have read so far suggest that German healthcare is in trouble because providing it is so expensive. I have read varying reports on how the German people like it. I don't know what to believe is true... My daughter lives in Boston. That is such a fun city. JY

I would love to visit that site. Address =? If you don't mind, I'd love to send you a few questions in the next 24 hours to get your personal insights..... Thanks for your answer. JY

Thank you so much for responding to me. I am writing a paper on the German health care system. It would be a better paper if I had first-hand knowledge from a German person. Do you think I could call you sometime and ask you questions for maybe 15 minutes? (Maybe less).... I live in Iowa. Where do you live? Did you work as a nurse in Germany? Are most Germans happy with the healthcare system? Why did you move here? Is it a good thing to be a nurse in Germany? How are nurses treated? A woman from the former Yugoslavia told me nurses there are like waitresses here... How are the salaries for nurses? Did your family get what they wanted from the healthcare system in Germany? Did they think it was expensive? Did they pay a lot for services? prescriptions? Are there nurse practitioners in Germany? I would LOVE to hear from you. I have written 15 pages so far but an interview with you would make my paper and presentation SO much more interesting. Thank you again for any information you provide. JY:roll :roll

Thank you, Suzanne.

Researching German healthcare....love to talk to nurses/etc. with recent experiences....employees? patients? Is there hospice in Germany?I am studying to be an adult nurse practitioner in Des Moines, Iowa. Currently practice as a critical care/ER nurse. 2/8/06

I am a RN with a BSN & a BA. Looking into NP school. Where are the most job opportunities going to be nationwide? Any opinions on Creighton? Graceland's online program (Independence, Missouri)?