Coollittleme

I really think this is relative. I'm a military spouse; 17 years following my husband around in the Army and have never had a problem with jobs when I wanted one. I think in larger military installations people are more familiar with the families that come and go and some States are more military friendly than others like Texas for example is very military friendly State.

You can apply for the AANP without final transcripts and you'll get preliminary test results when you take the exam, but scores and certification won't be released until they receive final transcripts.

Same thing happened to me; I took mine on the 21st and passed, yesterday I checked the site and it said "Exam failed", I checked after five so I was in panic all night and cried allot. I called them today and they also mentioned the computer glitch. I checked the site today and it no longer said "Exam Failed", it said "Complete". She also said if you got a preliminary pass that you did pass. I feel so relieved! Don't worry, I'm sure we actually passed :-)

If you are a military dependent, your school has a contract with one of the military teaching facilities and they can accommodate you, they will let you do clinicals.

Didn't you guys have to do clinical hours for your physical assessment class? In my program we had an Advanced Health Assessment class with 90 clinical hours with a preceptor.

I don't agree with you in regards to online MSN's, I did mine online and did all my clinical on a military facility including the Family Medicine residency clinic. I had the same preceptors that the PA's, MD's and NP's who attend the onsite Army schools had, I had a faculty member hired by my school who would come to my clinical site to evaluate me a few times each semester. None of my preceptors ever said that I knew any less than the other NP's or PA's at the family medicine residency clinic, or the other sites such as the pediatric clinic, or women health clinic. I'm very grateful for online education, my husband is an Officer in the military and we are constantly on the move and it afforded me the possibility to move up professionally. I graduated in December and have had several job offers including as a direct hire for the military where i did my clinical. I feel like I've had a quality education and if I had to do it all over I would do it online. Anyways, more power to you who can go to a classroom, be proud of your success and how you achieve it but don't be so judgmental of those who can't. Online NP education has existed for many years; it isn't a new thing, it's a proven and successful form of education that is here to stay.

The Pearson report also stated "Impression #1: We need to legislatively remove NP-degrading discrimination. NPs must remove any and all statutory restrictions pro- hibiting those of us with university- earned doctorate degrees from being addressed as “doctor.” I have no argument with the six states (Arizona, Illinois, New York, Penn- sylvania, Texas, and Virginia) that have legislatively allowed qualified NPs to be addressed as “doctor” as long as they clarify that they are NPs. After all, we don’t want anyone to confuse us with physicians and we are proud to be known as NPs. However, seven states (Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon) have statu- tory restrictions against doctorally educated NPs being addressed appropriately."

I don't see the issue with a DNP prepared NP being called Dr.; Doctors of Optometry can be called Dr,. dentists can be called Dr., even psychologists can be called Dr. and no one is confused, everyone know what they are and what they do, so why not the DNP prepared NP? As long as the person clearly identifies himself/herself as an NP there's no room for confusion. MD's and DO's own the titles "Doctor of Medicine" and "Physician", not Doctor in general. There's a double standard about this because it is about Nurse Practitioners; I see this as plain discrimination against the profession. I do feel that the NP has the obligation to clarify his/her role during the introduction though. I'm currently in a DNP program and I intend to use the title Dr. when I'm done. I did my FNP clinicals at an Army facility and all the DNP prepared NP's over there were addressed as Doctor. For myself it is about being proud of my profession and having obtained a terminal degree. You don't see the DNP as a clinical degree now because it is mainly for people who already have a MSN; but if you look at the curriculum of a post BSN DNP program it is indeed very clinical. I already have a MSN-FNP and I still have to do 510 clinical hours during my DNP program. Anyways, I'm happy about my choice of going back to school for the DNP :-)

I'm about to graduate this December (2011) from my FNP program and I had one year experience in Post Partum before I started it and I didn't see how my experience helped me at all, because what I learned to function as a FNP was not at all related to the RN role. Some of my preceptors actually told me that sometimes it was harder to precept people with lots and lots of experience because they had a difficult time moving from the RN frame of mind into the provider frame of mind which is needed to succeed in clinical. I'm not saying that having experience isn't a good thing; I'm just saying that not having much isn't a negative thing either. The only problems might be competing for acceptance into a program with people with more experience, however most programs require only 1 year experience. I say; if you feel ready go for it!

I'm about to graduate Ball State FNP program and I agree with NPinWCH that if you are disciplined it can be very doable. Although the tests are online they are timed and unless you studied there is just no time to look things up. I am enjoying the program and I would do it again. I just wish there wasn't such a large amount of reading do and to remember without any specific guidance as to what is or isn't important, but overall I'm happy with it.

Hi Labbio, I've been trying to reply to your message but I don't think I have enough privileges to do it. I love this book and it has been helpful for me in studying and also at clinical as a quick reference. I would recommend it to anyone needing to review for classes, boards of just for practice. The author Amelie Hollier also has a great review course; I got her CD's and I love it!

I still love my Clinical Guidelines in Family Practice by Uphold but I just got a new one and wanted to share with you guys that are going to NP school or even that are new to practice and are looking for a more current book because this one it is 2011; it's called Clinical Guidelines in Primary Care A Reference and Review Book by Hollier and Hensley; I bought it at the APEA website. I'm so excited that I had to share it with you all because I'm doing my adult rotation and I've been looking for a current edition of Uphold since mine is the 4th Edition from 2003, but couldn't find one so I found this other one. I love it so far!!! If you guys have any other Clinical Guidelines that you could share the name it would be great :-)