Are you satisfied?

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  1. What is your overall satisfaction with being a nurse practitioner?

    • 4
      Extremely satisfied.
    • 0
      Somewhat satisfied.
    • 3
      Equally satisfied and dissatisfied.
    • 0
      Somewhat dissatisfied.
    • 1
      Extremely dissatisfied.

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Specializes in Case Management, ICU, Telemetry.

Hello All!

I would like to get perform a survey including NP salary, certification, area of work and job satisfaction. There are other threads from 2009 addressing salary, none addressing satisfaction. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Please answer the following questions...

1. Certification (FNP, ACNP, Midwife, WHNP, etc) and education (MSN, DNP, phd).

2. Years of experiences as an RN and years of experience as an NP.

3. City/State of Practice

4. Employment Area (hospital, clinic, with cardiology doc, etc)

5. Yearly Salary

6. Job Satisfaction on a scale from 1-10 (1 being not satisfied at all, 10 being the most satisfied).

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Specializes in SICU / Transport / Hyperbaric.

Is this for personal use, project for school, if for school has it been IRB approved? You may get more information if you explain why you are requesting personal information such as salary on an open forum.

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Specializes in Case Management, ICU, Telemetry.

There are tons of forums on allnurses.com that request salaries, if people are uncomfortable posting salary then they don't have to respond :). It is because a bunch of us students were wondering how many NPs work in the field that they are certified in. There has been a lot of confusion regarding scope of practice, especially when comparing ACNP and FNP. It has also been noticed that ACNPs are usually paid more according to job postings that we looked at but we don't know if that is because of the ACNP certification or due to working in acute care. It was also noticed that DOE for pay can be confusing, some employers care about prior nursing experience while others do not and pay/hire based on NP experience only. I'm sure there are a lot of NP students and practicing NPs who have wondered what others' experiences have been like. I am also very curious regarding job satisfaction by practice and also by state, I'm wondering if there is more satisfaction in states with a more expanded scope than others. Also, general satisfaction based on practice, are midwives more satisfied than ICU nps? Stuff like that.

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Specializes in SICU / Transport / Hyperbaric.
There are tons of forums on allnurses.com that request salaries if people are uncomfortable posting salary then they don't have to respond :). It is because a bunch of us students were wondering how many NPs work in the field that they are certified in. There has been a lot of confusion regarding scope of practice, especially when comparing ACNP and FNP. It has also been noticed that ACNPs are usually paid more according to job postings that we looked at but we don't know if that is because of the ACNP certification or due to working in acute care. It was also noticed that DOE for pay can be confusing, some employers care about prior nursing experience while others do not and pay/hire based on NP experience only. I'm sure there are a lot of NP students and practicing NPs who have wondered what others' experiences have been like. I am also very curious regarding job satisfaction by practice and also by state, I'm wondering if there is more satisfaction in states with a more expanded scope than others. Also, general satisfaction based on practice, are midwives more satisfied than ICU nps? Stuff like that.[/quote']

Cool. Just wondering. Sometimes people try to gather information for other than honorable means.

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