I left an NP program after the lack of rigor unsurprisingly failed to instill the confidence required to make life-altering decisions concerning the health of another human being. I believe that, in order to restore validity and esteem for the nurse practitioner profession, nursing needs to revisit assumptions that have become fundamental to the instruction of practice - not the least of which is the assumption that nurses somehow learn different than other individuals, a claim made in concert with pillars of nursing's "metaparadigms." We need a return to empiric knowledge, and that should constitute the overwhelming bulk of the NP curriculum. And, yes, it should be bulky, onerous, and challenging for even the most capable and competent of nurses.
Nailed it!! I am becoming ashamed of my profession. I am a 20+ year ACNP. The students are lacking in so many ways. The clinical instructors don’t ever come evaluate the student. The last clinical called me for a total of 30 seconds. Number of graduates do not correlate to quality.
I left an NP program after the lack of rigor unsurprisingly failed to instill the confidence required to make life-altering decisions concerning the health of another human being. I believe that, in order to restore validity and esteem for the nurse practitioner profession, nursing needs to revisit assumptions that have become fundamental to the instruction of practice - not the least of which is the assumption that nurses somehow learn different than other individuals, a claim made in concert with pillars of nursing's "metaparadigms." We need a return to empiric knowledge, and that should constitute the overwhelming bulk of the NP curriculum. And, yes, it should be bulky, onerous, and challenging for even the most capable and competent of nurses.
Nailed it!! I am becoming ashamed of my profession. I am a 20+ year ACNP. The students are lacking in so many ways. The clinical instructors don’t ever come evaluate the student. The last clinical called me for a total of 30 seconds. Number of graduates do not correlate to quality.