NP/PA Residency?

[Joebird23]

So i'm not sure if I am going the NP or PA route. So do most residencies accept both PA's and NP's??? Or are they just mostly PA residencies?

[andersenpa]

The two are not interchangable. PA residences accept only PAs. Residencies are not mandatory either.

[EMEDPA]

there are many more pa than np residencies. something like 25-40 pa residencies and 2 or 3 for np's.

[OpSite]

NP's generally choose their specialty prior to entering school. For example, a CMN is a midwife, a PNP is a pediatric nurse practictioner, ect. One can enter the program for a general practitioner, but for things like women's health or pediatrics or neonatology, there is no need for a residency because that's the focus of the program from the start. That being said, with the push for NP's to hold a PhD, things might change (as they always do in medicine).....although the RNP's I know have extensive nursing experience and tend to lean toward their field of expertise. Anyway, after nearly 20 years of nursing, that's one of the reasons I chose the PA route.....more flexibility in practice.

[rschneller]

Just a suggestion...look at who has a better representation in your state. The state that I live in the NP have more job openings and a better legal support because their lobbyist have been working on their legal environment for more years than the PA's. In my state PA's work more in Surgery or ER. NP's got rx writting ability years before the PA's did and hence the Doctors prefered them.

[Russell]

I believe that there's a group in Utah that will accept either a PA or NP (link); trauma and surgical critical care. The program director is a FNP...

[maryfran123]

Our Trauma/Surgical Critical Care post graduate fellowship accepts both PA and NP applicants. The people that help run the program in Utah actually came and spent 2 day with us as part of their prep for setting up their residency.

 

Opsite, we have our 5th post grad fellowship class starting Oct 1 and both are NPs. We have had double digit applications from NPs since the start of our fellowship, this year was the highest number yet.

While it use to be true that the traditional NP student had many years experience at the bedside we don't find that to be a truism any longer. Many NPs go straight thru nursing school directly into NP program with little bedside experience.

[rcdavis]

Hey mf,

How does this sorta direct entry, no experience NP program effect the NP sales pitch that NP trumps PA because NPs all " have years of bedside nursing experience" which justifies their quest for independent practice?

 

Or do you think the DNP tries to answer this question by stating the terminal degree ipso facto declares them terminally ( no pun intended, truly) qualified a la physicians?

 

I am surprised to hear that there are direct from nursing school NP programs. And saddened. To me, this represents how much ground we have lost to them... They are now getting away with doing that which they use as an argument against us.

 

Damn.

 

Sigh.

 

Back to my hole.

 

Rc