Would you go for your PA?

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I was wondering if any of you guys thought about going for your PA. I talk to the woman in my forum and all of them wants to go on to NP. I want to be a PA b/c I always wanted to go to Medical school. So I feel PA is best thing to it. The woman kind made it seem like PA was for a man and NP was for a woman. Kind of studid if you ask me :rolleyes: I know being in the RN or LPN you are surround by woman who don't think you should be there. Just wondering if you would be more comfortable as a PA?

Thanks from the twin cities :p

Dorise,

I'm not surprised that you would get that response from an MD. As I mentioned in my previous post, some physicians prefer to work with PAs because they know they can control everything the PA does, and they can't do that with NPs. Its also misleading for the doctors you're speaking with to suggest that PAs receive more technical training than NPs. PAs are no more qualified than NPs in any area of their practice. The reason PAs have a different perspective on patient care than NPs is because PAs are trained in the medical model of patient care while NPs are trained in the nursing model of patient care. For this reason, I'm inclined to believe that NPs are more wholistic in their practice because they tend to view patient care as much more than just diagnosis of disease and writing drug orders. In any case, both are good career options, and I wish you success in your future plans to become a PA.

Additionally, we learn much of the same material in nursing school (undergrad) that a PA focuses on at the master's level. I think nurses have a real advantage.

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I was just talking to a friend of mine's mom and I was telling her my plans. She works as a teacher at U of M in minneapolis and she told me with a BSN in nursing I could go to Medical school. Being doctor is still alive dream in me, and I'm only 20 years old. So how knows maybe after I get my BSN I will go ahead to Medical school.

Thanks everybody for your input

from the twin cities

of course you can! personally, that's what i would do if i were younger. in my nursing program, about 5% of the graduates returned to medical school.

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