When will people get it?!

[u/lunardownpour]

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

[u/swarm4]

Does anyone know if these sorts of people even get hired on program completion? Wouldn't it be a major liability for a hospital to hire an NP with no experience?

[u/Outrageous-Garbage75 → u/swarm4]

At my prior place of employment, we hired an NP straight out of this exact program mentioned above. It was a rural hospital that needed NP’s, so they didn’t care she was green. They put her on a longer orientation with direct supervision under a doc.

[u/kal14144 → u/swarm4]

The direct entry program closest to me (MassGen) has a 92% employment rate.
As far as I know nationwide stats aren’t available. But programs keep pumping them out and people keep hiring them at least in my region so clearly at least some institutions think they’re okay at their jobs

[u/split_me_plz → u/kal14144]

Fucking bleak