And that's a fantastic revenue strategy. I think Robert Kyosaki makes more money from franchising than he does from his purported real estate investments. I only wish I were creative enough to find my own passive income niche.
You've got to become a RN and some states require some experience as a RN before you can get a NP license at all or sort of an unrestricted license. Working as a RN absolutely sucks, but I believe you could definitely and very easily become a Psych NP within three years minimum. You may also not want to use the doctor things in applications, etc. It would be hard to overlook but a lot of academic nursing seems to despise physicians.
In my state this is not the case. The nursing board is exceedingly intrusive and over reaching. The medical board is more of an old boys club letting members go lengths without so much as a letter of warning, etc.
More like 12 month RN and 24 month NP.
Maybe I should go and do a psych NP as a former RN.
If you like diversifying you income stream then why not?
Not faulting you for taking advantage of "f up" system even if I believe your training as NP is [insert whatever here].
It's pretty ridiculous. If a physician is unsafe at 2.9 years of GME and four years of intensive medical school, why is a NP safe with zero GME and two years of online training?
Studying for the board now is making me more frustrated with the system. I could have started making $$$ at the end of residency but I have to take 4-6 wks to study for that thing.
Because "heart of a nurse, brain of a physician" beats mere brain of a physician, body of a cafeteria-fed resident.
And this is why, like a parrot, I routinely post we must all be advocating an end to step/level three for licensure. Petitioning every state to grant full licenses at time of MD/DO graduation.
Not true, Vanderbilts is 12 months NP.
Which states will not license a NP graduate without prior nursing experience? I've never heard of this although it used to be customary for universities to require actual nursing experience until they saw the cash cow I guess.
I really pity you guys. Your programming is terribly expensive, you're horribly micro managed, and most physicians have never had the opportunity to be anything other than a student and a doctor. There's nothing you guys do or carry enough expertise about to make me remotely want to follow your path. I was a great student too with a full university ride. Nursing came later. I was ten years older than most of the kids in RN training, and even then that seemed terribly drawn out and generally fruitless. For me, becoming a RN was somewhat of a haphazard decision. I incorrectly assumed their education is deeper than it is, LOL. The PMHNP part just made sense. It was either that or a MHA, and then I realized I would just be administering things similarly to what I wanted to escape. YMMV. Some people always wanted to be a doctor or a nurse. At this point, I'm looking to make yet another career leap... although I probably won't because it's too easy to set my conditions and revenue.
I also think we need to better vet everyone. I'm not sure your testing really yields a solid clinician, and we all know absolutely horrible FMGs who passed all the tests. I've always been under the impression that the worst healthcare errors, malpractice, and lowest patient satisfaction was to FMGs.
Sort of both. I wasn't clear. Sorry. Schools requiring experience and I think there's a smattering of states, mine, that allow you to become a collaborating or supervised NP then independent after x years of experience.
That is offensive and there is no evidence of that. You cannot generalize based on national origin.
Yeah, I believe the entire profession is in crisis with regard to that matter.
What national origin am I specifically referring to, and how do you make a living talking to people if you're this easily offended?
Please take your xenophobia elsewhere
