What kinds of patients do you see?

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I'm finishing my BSN in 9 weeks, YES! My goal originally was to go straight into NP school initially but I've since been schooled that I should work for a while to gain nursing experience. One of my clinical instructors told me I should have 3 years in the ICU and 2 in the ER because as an Adult NP she deals with really complicated heart medications and she felt unprepared dealing with them when she started. That scared me quite a bit because I thought NPs mostly dealt with straightforward patients. Now I'm second guessing if I should pursue NP at all. I want to go into pediatrics so I don't know if that makes any difference. Can someone fill me in on what kind of experience is beneficial, how much of it I should have, and what kinds of patients/issues I should be prepared for when I get into the field?

Thank you!

[zenman]

Another thing I thought of was the experience requirement for my MBA program. Everyone had to be over 30 and have management experience. One 29 yr old got in because he owned his own company. Imagine all our "real-life experience classes" as well as having professors who actually worked, ie., HR professor was HR executive, Productions & Operations professor actually was Productions & Operations executive, etc.. Compare this with those MBA schools where you get an MBA with no experience and then go into companies and try to tell them what to do...laughable!

[myelin]

Thank you! I guess I just get annoyed when people say "The only way to be a competent NP is to have worked some arbitrary number of years as an RN in some arbitrary setting.

[BCgradnurse, MSN, RN, NP]

Thank you! I guess I just get annoyed when people say "The only way to be a competent NP is to have worked some arbitrary number of years as an RN in some arbitrary setting.

You're not alone.....it annoys me too!

[CCRNDiva, BSN, RN]

never mind