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Specialty and DNP

If your MSN is in Family NP, and you go on for DNP, can you complete, say, acute care clinical courses during the DNP, and sit for the acute care NP boards following graduation? Or do the DNP clinicals have to be within the specialty you chose during the masters?

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    curious about this too....im also interested in doing one specialty for my msn, and if i decide to go back for a dnp, would like to do it in another specialty to be dual certified and make the most out of my buck

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    Amen. Honestly, I believe the NP programs ought to teach generalist FNP the first two years, then XNP the last year. This will give you more options.

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    Usually there isn't any clinical for MSN-DNP. You only have to do clinical if you do BSN-DNP because BSN's haven't had any experience in diagnosing and treating patients. Kind of the same senario if you do ASN separate from BSN...then there wouldn't be any clinical for a BSN because you would be already working as a nurse.

    That would be great of there were any programs out there that would let you specialize while completing your DNP. I know one of my classmates (BSN-DNP) will be applying to a post graduate ACNP program after graduation. More school...more loans :-(

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    Hello all

    Ive been looking at various DNP programs and it appears that if you are already FNP certified then you can take additional coursework in whatever specialty you are interested in and sit for national certification afterwords in the combined post masters/dnp programs. Every school differs in terms of what tracks are offered. Also, you will have clinicals for that specialty separate and apart from the clinicals you will complete for the doctorate (which would be more geared toward project implementation, leadership/management etc).

    Im an FNP. Im interested in becoming certified as a PMHNP. Ive been looking at University of Southern Alabamas PMHNP-DNP program. Im not sure if I will go all the way through to the DNP level, just not sure of the benefits of doing it as I believe that I can achieve my professional goals without it. Just my thoughts so far in my planning process.

    So far this is what ive seen. Has anyone seen anything different.

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    My school requires 1000 residency hours and does not permit specialty certification as part of the DNP. Just clarify with the programs you are interested in.

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