Absolutely loved this article. I feel strongly that NP education needs a complete overhaul, and have had similar thoughts to the needed restructuring that you’re voicing here. I feel very pessimistic that the governing bodies of NP education will make the changes necessary on a voluntary basis. Very worried that many bad outcomes will have to occur and that NPs will not be a trusted or respected profession before that occurs.
I wish it was true, but the literature shows a darth of evidence and there is no mechanism for switching specialties in place, there are some options, but no mechanism.
I think you may have overstated things in a few places. I feel that there is a mechanism for switching specialties. You must have gone through another certification process since you are both an FNP and an ENP it looks like. I could become double boarded too by going through a second certification for psych NP if I wanted. When I read your phrase "no evidence," I hold my breath because no one can ever have reviewed everything there is on a given topic. The only thing I know absolutely is that I know nothing absolutely.
Absolutely loved this article. I feel strongly that NP education needs a complete overhaul, and have had similar thoughts to the needed restructuring that you’re voicing here. I feel very pessimistic that the governing bodies of NP education will make the changes necessary on a voluntary basis. Very worried that many bad outcomes will have to occur and that NPs will not be a trusted or respected profession before that occurs.
I wish it was true, but the literature shows a darth of evidence and there is no mechanism for switching specialties in place, there are some options, but no mechanism.
I think you may have overstated things in a few places. I feel that there is a mechanism for switching specialties. You must have gone through another certification process since you are both an FNP and an ENP it looks like. I could become double boarded too by going through a second certification for psych NP if I wanted. When I read your phrase "no evidence," I hold my breath because no one can ever have reviewed everything there is on a given topic. The only thing I know absolutely is that I know nothing absolutely.