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What are the duties a surgical nurse practitioner can do? How often are they picked over surgical PA's? Is it a smart choice to pick surgery as an NP? Thank you
What are the duties a surgical nurse practitioner can do? How often are they picked over surgical PA's? Is it a smart choice to pick surgery as an NP? Thank you
the vast majority of surgical jobs for nonphysician providers( > 95%) go to PAs just like the vast majority of psych and peds jobs( > 95%) go to NPs. there are 20+ surgical pa postgrad programs as well.What are the duties a surgical nurse practitioner can do? How often are they picked over surgical PA's? Is it a smart choice to pick surgery as an NP? Thank you
the vast majority of surgical jobs for nonphysician providers( > 95%) go to PAs just like the vast majority of psych and peds jobs( > 95%) go to NPs. there are 20+ surgical pa postgrad programs as well.
do yourself a favor, if you are intent on surgery go pa if you ever want to see the inside of the o.r..
lost of "surgical nps " actually just do postop clinic and no intraoperative work.
if I wanted to do psych I would have gone np.
Well since it's easier to become a surgical PA, how hard is it to get into PA school after nursing school?
Well since it's easier to become a surgical PA, how hard is it to get into PA school after nursing school?
the vast majority of surgical jobs for nonphysician providers( > 95%) go to PAs just like the vast majority of psych and peds jobs( > 95%) go to NPs. there are 20+ surgical pa postgrad programs as well.
do yourself a favor, if you are intent on surgery go pa if you ever want to see the inside of the o.r..
lost of "surgical nps " actually just do postop clinic and no intraoperative work.
if I wanted to do psych I would have gone np.
And like another poster mentioned, things vary according to region. There are tons of NPs in the ER. My ER has no PAs, just physicians and NPs. But I know that there are PAs and NPs in the other hospital systems in the area. NPs in surgery aren't common around here I don't think, but that could also be because we have quite a few residents. But that NP i know that does first assist seems to do really well. And just because you don't see a lot of something doesn't mean it's because it's hard to pull off. Much of it could be because theres a path to get there that isn't as fluid, and people don't think to travel it.
If you pick the right PA school, then you should get in somewhere. Right now I'm confident that I could get in most places I would want to go if I were still on that route instead of NP. But the programs I would want to go to are places that have high HCE requirements. I would imagine youd still have to make a good showing in the prereqs to make the cut. I think if an RN didn't make it into PA school, a lot of it would probably be due to having some serious academic mishaps that call into question their level of mastery over basic sciences. PA school is going to teach you totally new material, and you need to be able to keep up.
PAmac, 2 things:
Is PA school really that easy? I'm an RN, made a 4.0 at a top nursing school. I was turned off to PA school in my area due to cost (biggest factor) and perceived difficulty of admission - the one affordable state school in my area gets like 4000 applicants for 40 spots.
as an RN with a decent GPA if you apply to 3 programs you will likely get into one of them. true, they are not cheap with few notable exceptions(RCC is 5k/yr for 2 years for example).
school itself is not that easy. getting in if you have good high level experience and grades is not too tough. maybe 10% of applicants today have experience at the level of medic/rn/rt. that is top shelf HCE and sets you apart from the thousands of applicants who are cnas and emt basics.
I They both open and close, do post op rounds and post op clinic visits, among other various clinic duties. Both of them had specialty certifications as RNs and the NP doing ortho surg assit is double boarded as ANP and ONP.
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sounds like being a surgical resident for life
yup. I have probably a dozen friends who are ortho pas. all go to the or, er, clinic, etc.It kind of is except it is in private practice so the big cases are not nearly as crazy. Still tough though. My experience is different then CHillyRN, the PA's I see in surgical fields not only do the floor/clinic work, but they also perform as assistant surgeon. I've seen that in ORTHO and CTsurg. Probably depends more on specialty.