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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is helpful, but really doesn't answer what the real difference are between the two.  From what I read, they are very similar and both can do patient care.  Do some of the above posters have insight.

Also, what if my DD goes to a direct admit nursing school, but then decides to switch to a PA after graduation (and will have her BSN).  Anyone seen that happen?
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[b]PA school is 2 years after graduation. As long as you have the pre-requisite classes you can apply.[/b] Be careful with nursing science classes vs standard science classes taught at a university for STEM majors. The nursing classes are often not as rigorous and may not be accepted by the PA program. Your DD may have to do a post-Bacc year to get the requirements. Your best bet is to contact a few PA schools admissions offices and ask if they accept nursing science classes. [/quote]

This is incorrect. Virtually all, if not all, PA programs require some medical work experience. What each program considers to be good enough experience varies. [/quote]

The schools I've looked at require a minimum of 1,000 hours.[/quote]

PP here. I looked into PA school as well, and this is pretty much what I saw too — 1000 hours with patients, minimum. As far as what kind of experience counts, that varies a bit (for example some will take the less complicated work — like phlebotomists and CNAs — and some won’t). If I were in college I’d consider getting certified as an EMT and spend summers getting experience on the ambulance, in a hospital, and volunteer hours with a fire dept/in the community. [/quote]

EMTs spend the vast majority of their time sitting in parking lots.  Of the calls they do get, vast majority are not emergencies at all (think morbidly obese person needs to go to the bathroom and cannot get out the recliner chair and they live alone). It isn’t the clinical experience you think it is.  [/quote]

What makes you think you know what I "think it is"? The only thing at issue here is hours required for admit to PA school. [/quote]

The point is the “required” patient care hours people are getting to get into PA school are mostly nonsense and fluff and not very helpful toward their medical education. As where nurses working as RNs for years prior going to going to NP school are infinitely better prepared. [/quote]

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