Re: No Health Care Experience is Wrong!! Archived Message
Posted by NeuroQueen on May 26, 2007, 9:36 am, in reply to "Re: No Health Care Experience is Wrong!!"
I understand how you would think that I am being biased, but I don't think that I am. When you go back to school, you are going back to learn something new. I got that. What I am saying is since this is a MASTERS degree program, that the fundamentals should already be there. This isn't a bachelors or an associate degree program where you are just learning the fundamentals for an entry level job. Not only does it help the AA but it makes the program itself stronger. The PA programs didn't always have the stringent requirements that it has today. But as more people got to know about them and the more people applied, it became a preferred requirement. The competition to get into PA school is unreal. Thats what I am saying should happen with AA programs. As more people get the wind of them and more people start to apply the requirements should change. They have already started by requiring in certain AA programs a b or better in the pre-requisites. And also, to shut peoples mouths (mainly the nursing boards) have a little something behind you....If they can continue to be misleading and tell people that these people have no health care experience.... that hurts AA's. But if you have health care experience as a preferred requirement u can cut the legs from underneath them( no mater what, they are going to hate AA's but you get my drift). I am saying this also to point out that its required for other health care masters degree programs.... And I hardly believe having a little patient care experience to be a road block. I think it would be an enhancement. It doesn't hurt to become a nurses aide or a hospital sitter, etc. etc. for 6 months or so it familiarizes you with the environment....
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