The DNP is going to discourage me!

There are CRNA's working today without degrees and the current requirement is a master's degree on top a BSN. It's not that I'm not academically inclined to do the DNP program, but I need to be able to work and support myself and I don't want to be burdened with debt just to get this extra title that won't help me do my job better. I also think the term "doctor" is very confusing to people especially in the medical profession! So I'm supposed to tell my patient's I'm a doctor, but not a medical doctor. That will scare the hell out of them won't it?

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The DNP is going to discourage me!

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Aug 13, 2012
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Discouragement-Yes!
by: Emily

I totally agree with this. By the time you complete 4 yrs BSN, your years of ICU experience AND THEN get your DNP will discourage a lot of people.

I think this is because you can't get all of your schooling out of the way at first. The year(s) of ICU experience are plopped in the middle so that by the time you'd like to go to school for CRNA, your at a point in your life where you'd like to focus on starting a family, buying a home, etc. Getting your Masters in such an intense field at that time in life is tough enough for those without much financial help. ADD the extra years and school loans a DNP requires will make it very tough for people who have to depend on themselves.

And this is the "quick" route. How many people aren't lucky enough to get into an ICU right out of nursing school? They have to wait EVEN LONGER to get into CRNA school; and this happens to be the case with a lot of people graduating nursing school these days with how jobs are situated.

I have my four year nursing degree. I've been working as a nurse for 3 yrs now and will FINALLY be able to get into an ICU this soring 2013. So if I'm lucky enough to get into CRNA school after 1-2 yrs ICU, the total years I have worked to achieve my career goal will be about 10-11 years (Masters Degree in mind).

Medical Doctors go to school that long and are able to at least get all there schooling done first before internship/residency. I'm hoping I make the DNP cut-off because to have to go back to school for that much longer this later in life is very discouraging. I'm not a lazy person or bad student either. I've always achieved a high GPA in school and have worked as charge nurse on my cardiac step-down unit.

Aug 13, 2012
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