FNP in North Carolina

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I am looking to relocate after I graduate next summer. I was wondering how the FNP job market and practice is in North Carolina. Any input greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

I am going to get on the BON and change this. We should be allowed to get our license without an MD. If they insist on a collaboration agreement to practice, well that's a different issue for another time. This is not an NP friendly state by any means.

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Cannot imagine that there is a worse state for NPs to practice. Not to mention that it took me almost 6 months to get my license to transfer and my "approval to practice" when we moved here.

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

Have you tried, Florida? Georgia? NC may not be NP heaven, but it isn't purgatory either. I plan to be the agent of change for this.

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

Nursetim: when you get to the BON, don't forget the CNS's. I have prescriptive authority in 5 states. Not NC.. I do locum tenens. NC has jobs and huge psych needs. NC is one of the 14 states that won't let us prescribe...

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

NPs, refuse to work in any state that requires you acknowledge authority over your practice to the Board of Medicine. that is the only thinkg that will get their attention. When all the states with independent NP practice acts have the best health outcomes, the rest will wake up.

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Living/working in NC is a marital compromise for me. My husband has a great job he's been at for 15 years. I've been an NP for 2 years and we aren't moving. It is frustrating to be sure but I am the most happily-married person I've ever known.

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.
NPs, refuse to work in any state that requires you acknowledge authority over your practice to the Board of Medicine. that is the only thinkg that will get their attention. When all the states with independent NP practice acts have the best health outcomes, the rest will wake up.

Or we can us nursing diagnosis only in our practice. Doctors don't know from nursing diagnosisi so they can't regulate our practice.

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Isn't using Nursing diagnosis an extreme limitation of our scope of practice? We used that in RN school and cannot bill for that. How is that helpful? I didn't go to school to be more limited. Since I just finished and have not found a job yet plus I have to move as my place is being sold, I may need to look out of state. Visited one state this past week for this purpose.

This is a pain. Is it true that you can have a physician collaborator anywhere in the state and not necessarily onsite? I heard that. It will be hard to find one to do that unless one I did clinical with would do it. I have doubts!

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

Anybody interested in hospice, my hospice is looking for people in the Wilmington NC area.

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I know this is an old thread. But I have been researching places to move (away from NJ) and my eyeballs about fell out of my head when I saw that NP practice in NC is regulated by BOTH the BON and the Medical Board. What? :no:

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

Yeah, it rots alright. the southeast is mostly like this. Let's see: NC, GA, FL, SC, AL, MS, LA, TX, SD, ND, UT, CO.

I once heard that CO NPs were suing the BOM for restraint of trade. If it ever goes forward and we get a favorable outcome, it paves the way for other states on the same grounds.

there are many NP own practices in NC, you just have to pay an MD his/her tribute.

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Nursetim, Is it common to see a NP practice? Is it difficult to open one in NC?

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