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I would agree that an RN should practice at least 3 yrs prior to going to NP school. I was in graduate classes with new graduate RN's during my NP training and some of the questions asked during our...
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I must say that I agree with the previous comment. One should have experience as a nurse before being admitted to NP program. 3 years sounds reasonable. Not that you are not a capable learner but there...
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I actually find that there is very little crossover between my job as an RN and my job as an NP. My colleagues in my NP job are a mix of PA's and NP's, and most of the PA's had not been RN's before....
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I, too, went to a three year program for non-nurses and came out with an MSN. I have been in practice for 24 years and in retrospect, I can say that the most important part of my training was the...
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I also feel there should be a number of years a nurse practices before she enters the np program. I have precepted np students who have never changed a dressing or removed stitches. They said "that is...
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I personally am a new NP after 20 years experience as an ICU and ED RN. I find that I have a much keener sense in my assessments and the necessary treatments that are necessary. I know that my...
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I also feel that NP students should have at least some experience as an RN before going to NP programs-My experience has been that NP students who have gone directly into an NP program do not know...
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To the person who commented that their role as a FNP did not need hospital RN experience, I could not disagree more. There may not be a lot of obvious "crossover" in day to day functions, but there...
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As an NP who graduated from a Fast Track program 6 years ago, I have mixed feelings on this topic. I really enjoyed my program and felt very well prepared to enter practice as an NP. However, I had a...
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I think it depends on the individual. I have sat in lectures, where an ER nurse who practiced for 30 years said things regard to primary care treatment that most of us were utterly in horror; she also...
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Hey, Terry Clarke here, so glad to have all this perspective so respectfully stated. One of the reasons I chose my program, in part, because it required 1000 hours of experience as an RN to sit...
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"New nurses can intuit that a twenty year veteran of nursing has an education that is twenty years out of date. The experience and hands-on knowledge earned in actual patient care does not a current...
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I am an RN with 28 years of experience at the bedside. I graduated from an MSN program with a concentration in Family Practice in August 2012.I think that a great deal of the issues are related to the...
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I graduated from a fast-track NP program 3 years ago, and I am among those who do feel that RN experience is important. When I got my RN license I started working right away as an inpatient nurse on a...
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Terrance Clarke exhibits an amazing arrogance in claiming that a nurse with 20 years experience is 20 years behind time. Most of us are consciencious and continue our education after leaving our...
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My opinion is with the RN experience first. I am a PA, but as with many PAs, we are actually something else. The people in my class we nurses, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists,...
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