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Hey guys! Just wondering if any NP(non-acute setting) on this board still works in an acute setting as an RN and not an NP. Maybe a per diem or part time in order to keep their acute care skills ongoing. Thanks!

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I don't know if this counts but I've been a volunteer on my fire dept for 20+ years now and am licensed as a pre-hospital RN (one of the first in the state). Of course, I don't get paid but the benefits are huge in terms of helping my community.

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Specializes in Psychiatric and Mental Health NP (PMHNP).
15 hours ago, ToFNPandBeyond said:

I had to *side eye* this comment.

I'm sure those "inner city" folks wouldn't appreciate it if their concerns were looked at as something of excitement for those bored providers looking for a little Thrill from work ??

I hope you are not a SJW. I am biracial and my family started out poor. I chose to work in a very poor rural area. Don't presume to make these types of comments to me. I was speaking from a medical perspective. There is nothing wrong with saying the work is more interesting and exciting than working in freakin' Beverly Hills, treating a bunch of rich white bleached blonde Stepford Wives.

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7 hours ago, FullGlass said:

I hope you are not a SJW. I am biracial and my family started out poor. I chose to work in a very poor rural area. Don't presume to make these types of comments to me. I was speaking from a medical perspective. There is nothing wrong with saying the work is more interesting and exciting than working in freakin' Beverly Hills, treating a bunch of rich white bleached blonde Stepford Wives.

I don't know what an "SJW" is, but as another person of color, I would then expect more from you...

Rather than get defensive, maybe take a step back and do some introspection. Your comment was insensitive. They deserve to have providers who legitimately want to work to heal them, not see their complex issues (largely a result from unresolved health inequities) through the lenses of something that is exciting, perhaps exotic (yes, my choice of word, not yours) or amusingly interesting. It's insulting.

I won't completely hijack this thread, just had to state this as it's problematic in the field we work in. Let's work to help those we want to help for legitimate reasons, not for selfish, I-need-some-thrill-in-my-life ulterior motives. You can prioritize thrill in your personal lives.

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Specializes in Psychiatric and Mental Health NP (PMHNP).
17 hours ago, ToFNPandBeyond said:

I don't know what an "SJW" is, but as another person of color, I would then expect more from you...

Rather than get defensive, maybe take a step back and do some introspection. Your comment was insensitive. They deserve to have providers who legitimately want to work to heal them, not see their complex issues (largely a result from unresolved health inequities) through the lenses of something that is exciting, perhaps exotic (yes, my choice of word, not yours) or amusingly interesting. It's insulting.

I won't completely hijack this thread, just had to state this as it's problematic in the field we work in. Let's work to help those we want to help for legitimate reasons, not for selfish, I-need-some-thrill-in-my-life ulterior motives. You can prioritize thrill in your personal lives.

Just stop it. You are the one that needs to get the giant chip off your shoulder. You don't know me and you are not in a position to judge me. I am a Nurse Corps Scholar and and I changed careers in midlife to work with underserved populations, taking a huge pay cut in the process. It is not denigrating a patient to say that their case is medically interesting. Nor is it insensitive to say that urgent care clinics in poor areas tend to be busier than in affluent areas, because that is the simple truth. And there is nothing wrong with saying that I find working with the underserved more exciting, interesting, and emotionally rewarding than working with the affluent. If I didn't feel that way I could easily get a job in a place like Beverly Hills and would do so!

Where are you working? I am in an extremely poor area and I'll be going to another even more underserved area.

How dare you presume to judge me! Do you think you get to decide who is worthy of working with the underserved?

"Pluck the log out of thine own eye before plucking the speck out of thine neighbor's eye."

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Staff note - please stay on topic. Sometimes what we type isn't really the way we mean it - with the internet we don't have the advantage of non-verbal communication i.e., facial expression, hand signals, etc..

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Specializes in Peds ED.
On 3/14/2019 at 2:09 PM, LM NY said:

I thought I can't work in the ER with an FNP. I don't want to remain in acute care full time once I get my FNP, but would love the chance to do it once in a blue. Maybe I am thinking too much about it now, when I haven't even started the FNP program. All I know is, I will always have that itch for the hospital setting, just not full time.

When I worked in Pennsylvania the NPs in the ER were all FNPs that I worked with. I had several coworkers go on to do just that.

I have a coworker who works in primary care as a PNP and also works in the hospital float pool as an RN. I had nursing instructors who worked per diem as bedside nurses and most of them had NP credentials. It doesn’t seem like you’re alone in wanting to keep a toe in the bedside nursing pool.

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Ok guys last staff note before this thread is closed:

please stay on topic. I have removed several posts that veered off into who-knows-where....thanks for being professional....

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Specializes in Corrections, Public Health, Occupational Medicine.

I'm an NP and still pick up per diem shifts at the local jail where I used to be an RN, I still do Rn work and not NP work at the jail. I simply love working in corrections and the extra side income come sin handy in paying off student loans.

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