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First of all "board certification" is completely meaningless in the context of nurse practitioners. They are "board certified" by the nursing board, with standa

First of all "board certification" is completely meaningless in the context of nurse practitioners. They are "board certified" by the nursing board, with standards that are completely paltry compared to the standards set for actual medical doctors. Secondly, even for medical doctors "board certification" is largely an extortion scheme. Third - there are about 28 states where nurse practitioners can work independently of any supervising physician. Also, in many cases "supervision" is a joke, with the supervising physician hundreds of miles away and simply signing charts without reviewing them. > It isn't like they can go to Bob's Online College and then it's a free-for-all after that. It actually is, though. You would be very, very surprised.

ARandomerDude 6y ago
> It actually is, though. You would be very, very surprised. My Dad became a board-certified FNP when I was in high school. I've seen enough of the books, the reading, the studying, the records reviews, the toil, and the anxiety to know you're wrong about this.
- yhoneycomb 6y ago
  Your dad was likely trained in a time before the explosion of nurse practitioner diploma mills. Currently, certain nurse practitioner schools are better than others, but the fact remains that the minimum requirement for clinical training hours is 500. [1] That's literally 3 months working a 40-hr/week job. That's less than the number of hours Petsmart trains their dog groomers for (over 800). [2] Furthermore, many nurse practitioner schools are not even finding placements for their students, instead forcing them to beg others to take them on for what are mostly shadowing experiences. ---- [1] https://www.nccwebsite.org/content/documents/cms/2020323_final_statement_np_students_and_clinical_hours.pdf https://www.nccwebsite.org/content/documents/cms/2020323_fin... [2] https://services.petsmart.com/grooming https://services.petsmart.com/grooming

ARandomerDude 6y ago

> It actually is, though. You would be very, very surprised. My Dad became a board-certified FNP when I was in high school. I've seen enough of the books, the reading, the studying, the records reviews, the toil, and the anxiety to know you're wrong about this.

yhoneycomb 6y ago
Your dad was likely trained in a time before the explosion of nurse practitioner diploma mills. Currently, certain nurse practitioner schools are better than others, but the fact remains that the minimum requirement for clinical training hours is 500. [1] That's literally 3 months working a 40-hr/week job. That's less than the number of hours Petsmart trains their dog groomers for (over 800). [2] Furthermore, many nurse practitioner schools are not even finding placements for their students, instead forcing them to beg others to take them on for what are mostly shadowing experiences. ---- [1] https://www.nccwebsite.org/content/documents/cms/2020323_final_statement_np_students_and_clinical_hours.pdf https://www.nccwebsite.org/content/documents/cms/2020323_fin... [2] https://services.petsmart.com/grooming https://services.petsmart.com/grooming