APNs: Post your specialty

Gator FNP · Mar 2, 2011

I am a family nurse practitioner. I have worked in family, internal (with geriatric focus in nursing homes), Rehab facilities with the internal med practice, pediatric, rural health, some pain management in the family practice. All my experience gave me the credentials to run a PAT Clinic for Anesthesia in a large teaching hospital.

Trauma Columnist · Mar 2, 2011

I'm an adult health CNS and a peds CNS (don't take the educational route I took - lol).

I work in a large nephrology practice rounding on dialysis pts. I have also worked PT in an ER.

zenman · Mar 3, 2011

I'm a PMHNP and I work locums. This means I'm a migrant worker which is great because I don't have to deal with the politics of a workplace plus I get a corporate apartment, license and DEA costs taken care of, and either a car or $30 a day if I use my own car. I get to move around and check out different areas of the states and maybe will find an area where I'd like to settle down.

I currently work in a detention center. I get to "preview" my patients on the TV news, then see them in person in their new outfits and chain jewelry!

canchaser, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2011

@ Zenman, sounds like a nice gig. I'm hoping to get fnp completed someday.

kyboyrn · Mar 3, 2011

I'm certified as a family nurse practitioner, but work in emergency medicine. My background was in emergency nursing, so I started working as an NP where I worked as a nurse..Even though I work in a rural area, our ER sees over 40k patients a year. As we are one of the very few hospitals in the area with mental health facilities, I also get to assess and begin treatment for psychiatric patients. Although I find this area of practice interesting, I do not think I'd want to be a psych mental health NP. I like the FNP role, because you can see all age groups with a wide variety of problems and it allows me to work in ER, which is my passion.

zenman · Mar 4, 2011

I'm certified as a family nurse practitioner, but work in emergency medicine. My background was in emergency nursing, so I started working as an NP where I worked as a nurse..Even though I work in a rural area, our ER sees over 40k patients a year. As we are one of the very few hospitals in the area with mental health facilities, I also get to assess and begin treatment for psychiatric patients. Although I find this area of practice interesting, I do not think I'd want to be a psych mental health NP. I like the FNP role, because you can see all age groups with a wide variety of problems and it allows me to work in ER, which is my passion.

I started off as a trauma junkie in a Level I center, but now find psych more challenging and if it's a patient where nothing has ever worked before I'm like a dog on a fresh soup bone! I considered FNP but if I never hear a parent hold up their kid and go, "goo goo" again I'll be a happy man, lol!

kyboyrn · Mar 4, 2011

I started off as a trauma junkie in a Level I center, but now find psych more challenging and if it's a patient where nothing has ever worked before I'm like a dog on a fresh soup bone! I considered FNP but if I never hear a parent hold up their kid and go, "goo goo" again I'll be a happy man, lol!

Haha!!! I kinda have to agree with you here Zenman!!! :lol2:

allnurses Guide · Mar 4, 2011

I'm an FNP doing adult primary care in an urban community health center. I work with a very challenging population and an even more challenging administration. Pay isn't the greatest, but I had most of my student loans forgiven in exchange for 2 years of service.