Will you get your DNP

I got mine..I plan to work at Health and Human Services and dabble into research.

On 5/15/2019 at 4:51 PM, thinbluelineRN said:

Two conditions:

1. Someone is holding a gun to my head

AND

2. Someone is paying for it.

?

Even if they are paying for it. I make at least 100 dollars an hour. How is that reimbursed?

On ‎5‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 4:32 PM, Oldmahubbard said:

Even if they are paying for it. I make at least 100 dollars an hour. How is that reimbursed?

Good question- I hadn't thought of that:)

If I can secure funding for a DNP I'll do it, but I wouldn't say for one myself at least not in my present state of mind.

Clinical work is becoming less appealing. I enjoy my adjunct faculty position, and I'd like to be in leadership/administration so the DNP could help with those.

22 minutes ago, PMHNP Man said:

If I can secure funding for a DNP I'll do it, but I wouldn't say for one myself at least not in my present state of mind.

Clinical work is becoming less appealing. I enjoy my adjunct faculty position, and I'd like to be in leadership/administration so the DNP could help with those.

I agree this why I want to transition to a non-direct patient care role. Burnout is real on my end!

On 5/24/2019 at 4:54 AM, BermudaTriangle said:

I agree this why I want to transition to a non-direct patient care role. Burnout is real on my end!

Me too. Super burnt out.

I am curious about getting into education or research (not nursing research) but I don't think I need a PhD or DNP to be able to work in research. I most certainly don't want to be a PI and write grant proposals.

I really don't think I will get a DNP even though I've been mulling over it. I look at the classes and I just get so turned off.

Once I complete my PMHNP program I plan to get a post-masters DNP

@BermudaTriangle can you Pm me? I had a question about the dnp and reserves! I don’t have enough posts to send the message myself. Sorry! Thanks so much!

I'd love to continue education some day and become an FNP, but since it seems the trend is going towards schools requiring a doctoral level degree for their practitioner programs, maybe not. No interest in that much more schooling.

On 6/8/2019 at 8:13 PM, umbdude said:

As I reflect more on this topic, I maintain my immediate thought.

"I don't care anything about a DNP." And I don't. I think the entire premise of the degree is vapid.

Having said that, there are some things to consider.

The opportunity cost is too great. Losing work time is losing lots of money. Losing family time is losing something impalpable that you'll never get back. Billing won't change. Insurances won't reimburse more. There's no "extra" clinical value. Seems disparaging.

Presently, I keep working for income. I have no desire to maintain a clinical career, but I will do so because that's what I've got. A career change would be a lifestyle hemorrhage for my family. I'd be ok with it, but they never volunteered for it.

Sociopolitically, I don't "fit" with universities but won't say anymore about that. I don't care to advance my field with original research. Increasingly, I don't value administrators in the healthcare system and find the metrics by which their careers are assesses absurd.

That leaves me wondering, what can a DNP do for me. At a time, I considered an escape to academics or administration. I would make less money and be less enthusiastic than I am now. What's the point?

New grads, I encourage the DNP. The curriculum is shallow and base, but you will be, unfortunately, judged by not having it. Get it, but do it as inexpensively as possible. Use your local state university, work as much as you can plus 15%. But be good at what you do. Our profession has become too dilute and base.

For salty men like me, the DNP may as well be another liberal arts BA.