NPs, Please share the reasons you left your old job/specialty?

I am on the fence about leaving my current specialty all together due to poor management and lack of physician collaboration. To stay in my current specialty I am going to have to move which is not feasible. I do love my current speciality and had learned so much in the past 3.5 years. I am looking for a new job but keeps on wondering if I should stick longer to see if things are getting better with more experiences. Could you please share the reasons that prompted you to get into a new specialty? I guess I have nostalgia and needs some encouragement : ) thanks in advance!

[pulmNP]

currently in pulmonology for the last 4 years. I enjoy it but would like to make more money. Have been considering switching to derm.

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

barcode120x said:

I'm on my 2nd week into PM&R and loving it and the training program that they have laid out for me the next couple weeks (since I have 0 experience, and just barely a year as an NP). The providers and preceptors I have are all amazing and great teachers. I on the other hand do like a more slow paced, calm environment haha.

It's a great specialty. The attendings all the way to the residents were a joy to work with. I would have stayed if I wasn't young and wanting some adrenaline jolt here and there.

[GoodNP]

 

CuriousConundrum said:

Check out American College of Lifestyle Medicine.  If you can segue a specialty change after this then cool.  There is a faction of us, like you, who are gravely disenchanted with the traditional model of sick care and treating "stable" patients who are actually no better off. 

Ironically, I've been thinking about going to the local U. (not expensive) and getting a post master's FNP cert, more as a model of information than to change practices.  I'm a PMHNP.  

In parallel, treating people who want to be healthy or healthier is very fun.  

Thanks I'll check it out. And I agree, the rare motivated self-accountable patient is quite rewarding.