APP Director replied to Ptrv12's topic in NP Students
I've been a NP for 19 years and everyone in our class was working and going to school at the same time. Online NP programs were not abundant 19 years ago. I went back and did the DNP in 2007 and the DNP was a hybrid between online and in class. Ev...
APP Director replied to chillnurse's topic in NP Students
As long as the hospitals and academic medical centers have standards of education for their NP hires, it will be difficult for those that went to quick online programs to get hired. As an APP director in a major healthcare system, we have put hiring...
APP Director replied to Ptrv12's topic in NP Students
I wholeheartedly agree with you SlyFox. I am the Director of Advanced PRactice Provders for a major premier academic healthcare organization. I am an NP myself and if we don't hold ourselves as a profession to a high standard of education, no one e...