Disability evaluations for social security

[Michelle91518]

Hi everyone,

I’m a nurse practitioner who worked in primary care for almost a decade and became pretty much completely burned out. I made a desperate career move to leave this type of direct patient care last year and started doing in-home health assessments for Medicare advantage patients. The work feels unstable and I’m not sure how much longer I will have this job as my schedule has been very light (luckily I’m salaried but most who do this work are per diem).

I am trying to think of what else I can do as I really can’t stomach the thought of going back to being a primary care provider/responsible for my own patients. I found it to be very anxiety provoking and really not a good fit for me (and I tried a few different practices). I am considering doing disability evals for social security as my sister does this for psychology and was told they would take NPs for medical evals. Has anyone ever done this before? Did you have to rent out your own office space or equipment ? Any other suggestions would also be most appreciated from anyone else who is out of or wants out of direct clinical work.

Thanks in advance for any input!

[Dembitz, APRN]

Pre-op assessments for anesthesia? From what I understand, it's mostly a one-and-done type encounter with no ongoing care.