Reagan622

treefiddy, I did indeed read your post. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.

There is no "fast-track" or "quick route" to a career in anesthesia. If a quick career change is what you're looking for, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

Hey everyone, I'm getting ready to start a nurse extern job (I have one more year left of nursing school). For you nurses out there, do you have any advice or tips for me? I'm kind of afraid that I'm going to get in the nurses way and be annoying. :/ I have so much to learn, and I really don't feel like I have a clue about what to do. I hate that! But I want to learn as much as I can, and would like that learning process to be as painless as possible for the patient...and the nurses. :) Thanks!

What you described sounds just like what I would love to be doing in the next few years! Thanks for the info.

@SkiBumNP: Thanks for your input-it was very helpful!! If you don't mind my asking, what is your scope of practice in the ED? I've heard that some NP's do more primary care in the ED, but are you able to frequently work with critical cases? You mentioned that you do work with EM residents on some critical patients--do you get to have some patients of your own, or do you work more collaboratively with the residents?

Thanks for the replies! They were helpful. And yes I most certainly agree that a graduate BSN student should have at least a year of clinical experience before going on to graduate school. Sorry for not making that more clear.

Hi Everyone, I will be graduating with my BSN in about a year, and have been considering going back to school after that to become a NP. I'm new here, so I apologize in advance if some threads have already addressed my questions! First, I've been hearing that NP jobs are becoming fairly hard to find. Has this been true or false in any of your experiences? The NP school I am looking at offers a FNP track that I'd like to take, so I know that will make me more marketable, but still, I'd hate to go through all that work and not be able to find a job. I have quite a few family members and friends who are CRNA's and at least in my area, the job market for them is very good. Second, my dream NP job would be to work in the ED. I'd love to work with level 1 or 2 trauma cases, and not just the fast track. I realize that to do this I will most likely need at least a post-masters in acute care. Is this type of job realistic? Do you all see many NP's working in this sort of atmosphere, or are they mostly in ED fast tracks? Thanks!!