NP VS. PA | WHY I CHOSE NP ✨ Iveth Martinez

Hello guys welcome back! Or if you’re new welcome to my new YouTube channel where I share content about my experience through my nursing career. This video is about why I chose to switch my career from PA to NP, a lot of Pre med and pre pa students get to this fork and have trouble deciding so here are some of my reasons for switching!

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Both professions are great! Do what’s BEST for you. No matter what anyone believes they are both considered mid level healthcare professionals. Focus on helping people anyway that you can.

[tajathompson]

Incoming PA Student here- many programs have students that are starting right after undergrad (22 years old). Many of my classmates were paramedics, EMTs, I was an MA, nurses, respiratory therapists. Please remember that nursing isn’t the only career that will get you hands on experience. It also isn’t the only career that will allow you to see providers in the workplace. Nurses are also not the only healthcare professionals that can work under stress as well. I feel that my MA job has adequately prepared me for PA school :) Good luck on your journey!

[mountaingem]

I've been a PA for > 30 years and a post graduate emergency medicine residency graduate. The average age of my classmates was 34 yrs old. Every single one of them was already a health care professional. 1/3 were RNs, 2/3 were ex military medics, LVNs that went on to finish science degrees, xray techs, respiratory techs, physical therapists, paramedics, pharmacist, infection disease investigator, medical lab technologists ( they nailed pathophysiology and communicable disease) and showed that understanding pathology was more significant than prior clinical experience. RNs struggled with the pace of th e curriculum as much as all the rest of us. I've seen both strong and weak PAs and NPs. For me the best clinicians were the mature ones that continued to study medicine not nursing or allied health and had an intellectual interest in continuing to study medicine for the rest of their careers. I wish all of you a successful career no matter which you choose, you will have an awesome responsibility both to your patients but also to your profession. All it takes is one idiot or immature member to make the whole profession to appear inadequately trained.

[PoodleandNoodle]

While I agree with the RN’s getting more hours prior. But P.A.‘s get wayyyy more clinical hours vs NP’s in their masters program. So technically PA’s get more experience as provides than RN’s doing bedside care. You cannot compare the 2 experiences.

[DrMathOfficial]

Short answer: You made that choice because you were/ are SMART lol.

I'm coming back to watch this video as soon as I have time 🙂

[topdawgkilla]

you forgot to mention that PA students have to do rotations, they don't just jump into practice