Federal officials and residents in Camden, N.J., celebrated the opening of a nurse practitioner-staffed clinic at the Northgate II subsidized residential complex for elderly and disabled people. The clinic is part of a citywide initiative to reduce health care costs. The Examiner/The Associated Press (3/22)
This is the way of the future for many nurse practitioners and the many nurses pursuing this field. Fewer and fewer college students are choosing medical school as their future while many colleges are promoting the doctoral pathway for nurse practitioners.
A program that may enable nurses to hang their own shingle and provide care to the great number of patients expected in the future. The current baby-boomers are expected to be the greatest population of the elderly and sick. Nurse practitioners are one answer to this coming epidemic.
Another issue to be addressed is the fact that many colleges have limited resources and spaces for nurses who have already obtained a MSN degree to pursue the Nurse Practitioner certificate. There should be fast track options for this pathway, for nurses who have paid there dues and have many experiences.
Though the trend seems to push (fast track) nurses out into the profession with no dues and little experience. There seems to be an abundance of offers to promote fast education for those with little knowledge, and those who really should experience some nursing practice before expanding...
Consider offering opportunities to nurses with experience without penalty for already having experience.
Fast track MSN's to the Nurse Practitioner Certificate Programs
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