00:01
We often get asked
how much experience
nurses need before they
go back to graduate school
to get their nurse
practitioner degree.
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And I think the answer
to that is that it varies.
00:11
If you're going into a
Primary Care Program,
I have had several students
that have finished their BSN,
and then gone straight
into graduate school.
00:20
They usually work the first
year or so of graduate school,
so they're getting a little
bit of bedside experience,
but they have become very successful
primary care nurse practitioners.
00:30
On the acute care side
of things we have found
that people are a little
more successful if they
have a year or two of
bedside nursing experience.
00:40
Usually in a faster paced area,
if you could work in the
emergency department,
ICU, maybe a bone
marrow transplant unit,
units that are the patients
are a little bit sicker,
and then come to
graduate school,
we find that they
are more successful.