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thats one thing people seem to miss, being a 10 year ICU RN will help you know certain acute care skills, but if you have someone with SOB, you have to find out why, its not just crank up the O2 and Peep. you have to know what your are looking for, and treat it, not to mention would you even know what to look for?

hospitalist? as a new grad?!

The role of the NP is losing its status because these schools are accepting everyone and not looking at their background, no entrance exam or anything. Just because you were a good bedside nurse will not make a good NP, you have to be knowledgeable not only about treatments but diagnosing, differentials, and management etc.

Unfortunately, many of these things are true and with the amount of incompetent NP's running around you will see decreased reimbursements and worse things occur to NP's because of so many mistakes made by them.

I would like to refer AlwaydTiredNP to reddit.com/r/noctor how can you be a NP and diagnose, treat, but only piggyback off of MDs...didn't they say in school NP care is to the standard of MD....you just embarass yourself when all you talk about is pay rather than quality of care.

blame the schools that churn out nurses and lead them to believe they are somehow smarter and can diagnose and treat complicated cases...there needs to be more of a stringent process on accepting students and these diploma mills need to be closed.

and we claim that NP are on par with MD LOL

NP schools don't prepare you for anything, they are mostly a joke especially with the diploma mills, and yes definitely would recommend a residency just to be more competent in relation to peers and patients.

everyone is quick to point out that OP did something wrong, yet when OP posted the steps of PICC removal no one replies if its correct or not. LOL get a grip, its pretty much an IV removal and nothing happens. Just make sure they aren't bleeding and you have an order.

I don't think you understood what i meant, i was implying that nurses as a whole for some reason worry about doing something wrong and having something occur to their license much more often, and they are usually reported by their own peers for petty reasons. while other medical professions don't have this attitude.

not charting something properly? thats ridiculous, half of the charting of nurses that i know of are either blank from night shift, either they were out to get you or the nurses you work with (managers) are a real crappy people.

Not misogyny when you see it posted on here all the time, and how nurses feel so worried about license issues, you wouldn't see things like this in any other medical profession about license issues.

I noticed that in the US most female professions have these issues where it seems you are so worried about your license than actually the patient. You dont see this in medicine as much or with respiratory therapists. And often times its the nurses themselves who are in those power/controlling behavior to report nurses for no reason other than to feel better about themselves.

I had a question about the full scope of practice changes that are slowly occuring in certain areas. If this is enforced and NP's have full scope of practice, are they still able to work under MD's or will they just work in their own clinics and under companies?

Also looking into this program, whats the curriculum like, lots of papers? it seems a lot longer than the other universities.

Which track would be best for someone who wants to work as a NP in the hospital to round for doctors/work in clinics/ etc? AGACNP or FNP?

Interested in the AGACNP program, but hate writing papers, does anyone know if there are lots of papers for this school or know of other schools that don't require as much?

As much as there may be more pay in Norcal, the cost of living there is also very high. Side note, I am glad that bachelors is the preferred method for nurses nowadays, it should of been that way a long time ago.

You have never ever given a patient your last name? Do you guys wear badges at your hospital? Or do you work at a pysch ward? I am pretty sure all of the nurses that work in hospitals in CA must wear badges that identify who they are, now in a mental health facility/er they may put tape over the last name portion but every where else it must be shown...

It all comes down to having the MD behind your name, doesn't matter if there is an NP or PA doing the same thing an MD is, the public believe that you still aren't on that level.

What makes you hate it so much?

What school are you going to for the AGACNP, and are you working while taking classes? Also, they say its NP is suppose to rapidly grow on the BLS...

definitley silly, and a bit like get over yourself, you aren't that important, im just trying to do my job! lol...we are but specs in this big world.

Its crazy to think that a nurse should only be required to have an ADN. Its about time that they require nurses to have a BSN. With the responisibility, contacting doctors etc, they should of required it long ago.

WOW, and what do you nurses think about that, whats your hourly pay by the way for a new grad?