What is a Family Nurse Practitioner? More Fun Facts From Vanderbilt School of Nursing.
Let’s look at the quality of applicants at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner Program. This is from their website (FAQ):
What is the role of the Family Nurse Practitioner?
Family Nurse Practitioner graduates are prepared to provide primary health care to people of all ages, with an emphasis on health promotion and health maintenance. Family Nurse Practitioners make assessments, order and interpret diagnostic tests, make diagnoses, and initiate and manage treatment plans – including prescribing medications.
Do I have to be a nurse to enter the specialty?
No. You can enter this specialty as a BSN or MSN or if you have a bachelor’s degree or higher in a field other than nursing. If you have a bachelor’s degree or higher in a field other than nursing, you can complete a one year full-time baccalaureate equivalent program (PreSpecialty Year – Clinical Experiences), and then progress to the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty. If you have a BSN, you enter directly into the specialty course work. All students, regardless of entry type, graduate with a MSN.
Do I need RN work experience?
No. You can enter the specialty without RN work experience.
And this is NOT even from the online NP degree mills we see all the time.
So, to summarize:
- You don’t need a nursing degree
- You don’t need any nursing clinical experience.
But, they are “prepared too provide primary health care to people of all ages”. And with this nurse practitioners and their militant organization (AANP) claim they are as good as doctors.
Your thoughts?
It is an insult that they can charge using OUR CPT codes and get the same money!!!!!! (and their malpractice if they have any will be peanuts
of course, this is the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
This from an NP facebook page
“Group participant 1:
Saw this while surfing the internet and thought I would share based on seeing previous posts.
The facts, without an opinion regarding NP and rn experience:
1. RN experience is NOT required to get into most primary care NP programs. That is true for the top rated primary care NP programs like Hopkins, Yale, UCLA, etc. I did not have RN experience and was accepted by Hopkins, UCLA, and Univ of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing.
2. RN experience IS required to get into most acute care NP programs.
3. RN experience is NOT required to get into a lot of PMHP programs, including top schools.
4. RN experience is NOT required for a new grad NP to get a job as a primary care NP.
5. RN experience IS required for a lot of acute care NP jobs.
6. If you are interested in oncology, even if it is outpatient, these jobs NP usually require RN
experience.
A debate has raged here about whether NPs should be required to have RN experience. People here make a good case for both sides. However, the limited research that has been done on this does not support that RN experience is required. So there is no evidence to support that RN experience should be required for NPs, other than personal anecdotes.
The best source for school requirements are school websites. The best source for job requirements are job listings, not personal feelings.”
Now, please note that the AANP and friends have in the past pushed the idea that NPs were as good as physicians in part by saying that NPs come to their jobs after SOOOO many years of bedside nursing experience.
I don’t know if they are still saying it, but that justification disappeared some years ago.
I get emails from time to time, offering to pay me to let a nurse practitioner student in my office to fill her “observer” time.
Straight to trash, of course.
Keep showing this info to all your state and Federal legislators.It might make a difference.
GOOD LUCK.
God save the poor person who gets stuck with one of those!!!
500 clinical hours, mostly of observation, not participation. I had that in the summer of my first year of medical school plus my extensive science education.
At the end of residency I had 35000 hours of clinical participation. 70 TIMES plus the science and intelligence required.