Your dad was likely trained in a time before the explosion of nurse practitioner diploma mills. Currently, certain nurse practitioner schools are better than o

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