RN to APN after RAMP

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Hello, looking for some advice if anyone has gone through this before...I entered RAMP In 2016 and completed in 2021 successfully due to diversion. I recently graduated with my APN and am waiting for my license. It has been 8 weeks not and still no license. I'm beginning to get nervous about having to do something for RAMP again (like a monitoring or a restriction to prescribing) even though I've had zero issues once entering and completing the program. I guess I'm just getting paranoid because I still have a lot of shame and some imposter syndrome going on now that I will be a provider. Has anyone gotten their APN after completing RAMP and can share their experience of what the process was like with the DEA and BON? 

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Your license will get there and you are worrying about Nothing. RAMP or any other program doesn't "double sentence' you or make you "do a little more" as you advance in training. When you complete the 5 years, you are done, PERIOD. I've never in my life and having talked to hundreds of nurses in your situation who completed their monitoring program, then went on to become APNS, NPs, CRNAs have to do "something else" with the monitoring program again because they now have more credentials or prescriptive authority, etc. There is no such thing and this is all in your own head/your own worries which you should put aside.

Lastly, the same thing applies when you complete a monitoring program and after you are done, you move to another state and get licensed there. You don't have to "redo monitoring," LOL, in the new state. You are done. You completed the program. It's over. Relax. Your license will come.

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Ugh thank you so much! You made me feel a lot better ❤️

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RN2APN said:

Ugh thank you so much! You made me feel a lot better ❤️

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