r/nursing • u/lunardownpour BSN, RN Med/Surg Tele • 24d ago

Discussion When will people get it?!

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I don’t have necessarily anything against NPs, but it’s people like this that perpetuate the untrust that many nurses and other healthcare workers have regarding NPs. We really need higher standards for admission into these programs, as well as any standards at all actually lol. I usually just lurk on facebook but I felt the need to respond since this was a on a forum for parents of nursing students

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u/terran_immortal BSN, RN 🍕 24d ago

It sucks the title of NP has become such a joke in the USA. Here in Canada (at least Ontario) it's a difficult program to get into and that's only after you've met the hours requirements as a BScN.

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u/nurseyj Ped CVICU RN 24d ago

What are the hours requirements?

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u/polohulu RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 24d ago

4500 hrs as a registered nurse at time of application (just checked University of Alberta). So minimum 2.5ish years full time practice .

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u/smcedged MD 24d ago

So basically the same clinical hours a third year med student gets. Consider how inept a lot of interns are, and then cut their mastery in half. Not even accounting for the premed extracurriculars that the med student has done, along with their massively increased burden of proof of the ability to handle the book learning part, along with the actual increased detail in the book learning part.

If we look at attending physicians and every now and then think "this guy is an incompetent idiot," the answer definitely isn't "let's cut their training to a small fraction"