Nurse practitioner or Physician's Assistant

I have a young nurse with approximately seven years nursing experience looking at Physician's Assistant program as opposed to Nurse Practitioner. How should I advise her?
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Thank you for your reply. I wish I could find it. It was moved to the nursing career advice forum. Have not located it yet. Help. Thanks again.
I don't know if she has this option at the schools she's planning to attend, but locally here in Sacramento, UC Davis-CSU Sacramento's NP program and the PA program are basically the same. Students in either program take many of the same courses. If a NP student wants to also sit for the PA exam, all that student has to do is take a couple other courses that are in the PA program that aren't in the NP program and then the NP student can sit for both, and conceivably be licensed/certified as both a NP and a PA. Such a program side-steps the whole issue by offering a means to do both. If that option is available, I'd say it should be considered. If she knows what kind of NP she wants to be, that might make things a bit easier... but once employed in a specific role, she may only wear one hat at a time: PA or NP.
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Quote from akulahawkI don't know if she has this option at the schools she's planning to attend, but locally here in Sacramento, UC Davis-CSU Sacramento's NP program and the PA program are basically the same. Students in either program take many of the same courses. If a NP student wants to also sit for the PA exam, all that student has to do is take a couple other courses that are in the PA program that aren't in the NP program and then the NP student can sit for both, and conceivably be licensed/certified as both a NP and a PA. Such a program side-steps the whole issue by offering a means to do both. If that option is available, I'd say it should be considered. If she knows what kind of NP she wants to be, that might make things a bit easier... but once employed in a specific role, she may only wear one hat at a time: PA or NP.