Easy/Difficult NP jobs

[Fnpatlast]

1. The difficult NP job is 5 minutes drive away from your house with reserved parking. You are making important clinical decisions that will impact patient lives (clinical diagnoses, assessment, plan, prescriptions, referrals, etc).

2. The easy/simple NP job is 3 hours commute to and fro combined everyday. You take public transportation. No parking. Every patient comes for a preventive/wellness exam. No complex medical decision making.

Which will you choose?

Salary and benefits about the same for both.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

I value my time too much to trade three hours/ day for much of anything.

[Fnpatlast]

I hear you. Been there done that. How I wish the easy job is nearby.

[elainebenes]

The hard job hands down.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

Based on your other post, take the easy job or at least a job with good support.

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[Fnpatlast]

Hard job with no support is scary.

[Fnpatlast]

Yes, I like the way you are thinking. I was tired of the commute especially during the winter when it snows and my commute time doubles.

[Libby1987]

I would take the hard job because I would not be interested in one time wellness checks day after day, and the 3 hour commute would burn me out before the difficult job. I'd initially use that 3 hrs saved to prep for or finish work, or have a massage after each stressful day or something. I would approach it like I was going to war and devote all of my time and energy to learning it the first year.

[Jules A, MSN]

I would take the hard job because I would not be interested in one time wellness checks day after day, and the 3 hour commute would burn me out before the difficult job. I'd initially use that 3 hrs saved to prep for or finish work, or have a massage after each stressful day or something. I would approach it like I was going to war and devote all of my time and energy to learning it the first year.

Great advice! My attention span is too short to even consider a job that doesn't have me white knuckling it through a portion of my day, lol.

I do work one PRN gig that is 2 hours each way but the rate is so good I can add in my drive time and still make around $90 an hour. I wouldn't want to do it every day but once a month is kind of nice.

[Libby1987]

If you're working with a Medicare/Medicaid population, for anyone that needs assist with leaving the house, learn how to use home health as your *personal* RN assistant for observation and teaching, you can get twice a week x 3 weeks to start. You can give specific instructions, parameters, requested referrals, best way to communicate changes etc to take a load off of you. Find and build a relationship with a HH agency who will assign one RN to follow through with the patient from admit to discharge.

[Fnpatlast]

True talk. Time is precious, once lost can never be recovered. I'm doing the hard job close to home and I feel very much alive. I used to do the long commute for the easy job and was always very bored wondering what else is out there.

[NP2015]

Well I am a new graduate and am waiting to sit for the certification. While driving home tonight from dinner with my daughter, I was really thinking hard about this working issue---the easier job or the harder job. I heard this little voice in my head say,"I didn't go to school all of this time to go around and just do assessments (although this would also sharpen my skills!), but to assess, diagnose and treat". I would have to do both to have some extra cash (I need a new car like yesterday!!!) and to improve and fine tune my new skills. Believe you me, I have been thinking long and hard about just doing the full-time assessment job and unless for some crazy reason I could not get/keep my position as a provider in the clinic, then I would do the assessment job fulltime. I just really want to excel at this really bad.......excellent post and I look forward to others' replies !!!