Nurse Practitioner
"You'll leave here feeling better than ever"
Kaitlyn Tingley 4th Hour
Basic information about your career
- Make independent decisions about health care needs
- Provide primary health care to individuals
- Practice in direct health care situations that require advanced decision making and clinical assessment skills
- Registered nurses who have become expert in a specific area of nursing
- Work under doctor supervision
- Work in hospitals, doctors offices, nursing homes, and sometimes clinics and schools
- Tend to work up to 40-60 hours a week
- Most are required to wear uniforms
- Earn $67,300 a year and $32.36 an hour
- There is expected to be 12,060 job openings in the next 5 years
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
- Required to have at least earned either a masters degree or a doctorate degree in nursing
- Required to have a license
- Required to have supervised training
- After being certified you will then have to apply for a license to practice
What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?
This school doesn't provide a lot of training for my career but it does provide several different chemistry and physics classes that you can take to help you guide the path to your career. Some pros are that the application fee is only $30, it is fairly close to home, and their tuition payment isn't a lot. Some cons are that they don't have hardly any athletics/sports, they only offer an associates degree and a certificate of diploma, lastly the campus is located in a large city.
Address- 620 W. Clairemont Avenue Eau Claire, WI 54701
Website- http://www.cvtc.edu/Pages/default.aspx
University of Wisconsin Madison-
This school allows you to get whichever degree you are out to get, and that will help you succeed and get a job. They have several different science, math, social studies, and language arts classes that you can choose from. Some pros of this school are that they offer a bachelors, masters, first professional, doctorate, and many other advanced degrees, it has a large campus of 936 acres, it is fairly close to home, and offers two of my favorite sports, basketball and softball. Some cons are that the campus is located in a large city, it costs a lot of money including tuition, room and board, books and supplies, and other fees, and the instate tuition is $9,273.
Address- Madison, WI 53706
Website- http://www.wisc.edu
University of Phoenix-
This school offers several different courses and classes, and some of which will fit my career. They also have a lot of science classes in the different categories of physics, biology, and also chemistry. Some pros to this school are that it is made up of 320,300 acres, offers certificate of diplomas, bachelors, masters, and associates degrees, and also doctorate and other major degrees, lastly they have both softball and basketball teams that you could earn scholarships for. Some cons to this school are that it is located in the middle of a city, the out of state tuition is $26,712, and with all of the tuition, room and board, and books and supplies fees it costs a lot of money.
Address- 1625 W. Fountainhead Parkway Tempe, AZ 85282
Website- http://www.phoenix.edu
Chippewa Valley Technical College - Eau Claire Campus
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Phoenix
Associations/Professional organization for this career
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Address- 225 Reinekers Lane, Alexandria VA
Phone- (703) 740-2529
Website- http://www.aanp.org/about-aanp/aanp-contact-information
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Address- 20 F street, NW, Washington DC
Phone- (202) 223-2250
Website- https://www.napnap.org/contact