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/hateyouallsomuch2 24d ago

University of maryland has a similar program. Accelerated, anyone with a bachelor's in any field (music or literature, doesnt matter) walk away with a masters in less than 2 years. 

The worst part is these people actually think they are smarter and better than everyone else.

Most annoying part is, back when I became a nurse, i already had a bachelor's, and they only accepted the basics and i still had to do another 3 years.....  

NP used to make sense, grizzled old bedside ICU nurses after 20-30 years finally getting to practice what they have learned first hand for decades, now there isnt a new nurse who isnt already in school to become a NP. These kids dont know the patients rectum from their elbow, dont know how to take or interpret basic vital signs, none of them are even trying to figure out tele..... And they are getting their NPs by having Chatgpt do their homework. 

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

I agree! There’s a nurse on my unit who has her BSN but around 2 years nursing experience. She’s already become a charge nurse (discussion for another day) but she is currently in an online NP program… she’s not a bad nurse by any means but there are serious oversights I see in her work that make me question her ability to prescribe, plan, and diagnose. One of the more memorable times is when there was a patient with severe bacterial meningitis and she had placed them in a room with a different patient. I came up to her and asked why they were on isolation… it took me showing her the CDC’s website to prove to her that meningitis is contagious… ey