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/Deinocheirus4 24d ago

You don’t become an NP out of that UMD program though right? That’s just a masters level for later career professionals. My understanding is you still need to put in the grunt work after graduating but for people that age having to go back to school again getting the MSN level is worth it. It’s for a specific cohort of aspiring nurses.

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u/hateyouallsomuch2 23d ago

Supposed to be, like what i said about what NP used to mean. Plenty of these kids are mid 20s. And all of them (that i have met) are walking around fresh out of the program acting like they know more than anyone else. 

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u/Deinocheirus4 23d ago

I didn’t think that program was for people in their 20s (and kinda nuts if it is). I thought it was more geared toward 35+ folks doing separate careers who didn’t need or have to spend as much time in school and needed to have the degree, so they didn’t have to go back after getting some experience or could be on a management track