Should i become a nurse practioner or wait?

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Okay, so i have a question, should i get become a RN and go straight to work to get expierence, or should i just go straight from nursing school into getting my masters to becoming a NP?

thanks for the help :yelclap:

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2015 NPs must have there doctorate, however, if you have your masters before this year you may be grandfathered in.

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.
2015 NPs must have there doctorate, however, if you have your masters before this year you may be grandfathered in.

This is absolutely untrue.

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This is absolutely untrue.

You took the words out of my mouth BlueDevil :yeah:

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Specializes in Neuroscience/Brain and Stroke.

Yes very untrue!

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well I read on the american assoication of college of nursing that NPs must have a doctorate level in 2015. Y'all people on here be to hype and eagered to say someone is wrong like get a grip! I know what I read!

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I'm a nursing student at the University of Florida, hoping to become an NP and the cutoff date originally WAS 2015, but it is now 2020. We got a message in our inboxes when this was decided (which was just a couple of months ago I believe) when the date was changed from 2015 to 2020. Hope I could help!

-Taylor

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well I read on the american assoication of college of nursing that NPs must have a doctorate level in 2015. Y'all people on here be to hype and eagered to say someone is wrong like get a grip! I know what I read!

Yes, you may have read that on the website but there is such a thing as larger context and specificity. Let me direct you to a number of threads on this issue that come up with a simple search on the words "DNP 2015":

https://allnurses.com/nurse-practitioners-np/2015-dnp-discussion-529004.html

https://allnurses.com/nurse-practitioners-np/mandatory-dnp-2015-a-505362.html

https://allnurses.com/post-graduate-nursing/dnp-2015-forreal-511344.html

I'd also like to highlight a quote from one of these forums posted by one of the site guides:

Speaking from the NP perspective, it is still a recommendation and not an official mandate. That's just how it's going to unfold regardless of where you stand on the issue because as we all know, NP practice is regulated by the individual state boards as well as the multiple national specialty certification boards so change has to come from a collective effort from these entities. It is easier for other APN groups to set a deadline (such as CRNA's, for example) because their practice is more uniform and their training programs and certification are governed by a streamlined and unified entity unlike us NP's who seem to be more scattered (i.e., no formal accreditation specific to NP programs by a single entity and no unified national certification body).

When you post incorrect information or information taken out of context in a public forum, people will correct you. No one needs to "get a grip" but you do need to get your facts and context straight.

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It is ok to correct a person when he/she is wrong, however y'all be to the extreme when a person is wrong as if the person is dumb anyway like I said y'allneed to get a grip and calm down because it is not that serious and as I mentioned before I got my information from american association of college of nursing. So maybe the information on that site is wrong or outdated as one of the posters stated that it will be 2020 instead 2015. a btw i'm not interested in those threads

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Specializes in ICU, CV-Thoracic Sx, Internal Medicine.

This thread is amusing. :D

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You are so right. I dont understand all these people screaming that this isnt true. The change is coming, they already did it with pharmacists, we are next.

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because?

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