Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist Salaries by Specialty

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Hi everyone,

I currently work as a neurohospitalist nurse practitioner. I work 10 hour shifts, 4 days a week, every other weekend and every other holiday. My partner and I recently found out all other hospitalist positions- specialties and regular hospitalist positions are making more money than we are. It is very difficult to search this specific hospital specialty to come up with our own comps. I wanted to reach out to see if anyone works in a hospitalist position, and if you do, if you could share which specialty (if it was inpatient neurology that would be great), and your salary. We are trying to do some research to help argue our case. Thanks!!   

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

I work in a Cardiology/Hospitalist role. Salaries unfortunately are variable depending on what state and nature of the practice (private group vs academic vs hospital employed). I work in academic practice in a university health system in the SF Bay Area where APP's (NP, PA, CRNA, CNM) are unionized and salaries are available in the public domain with a simple Google search.

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Thanks for sharing! Do you mind telling us the pros and cons of your NP role?

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.
Bb431 said:

Thanks for sharing! Do you mind telling us the pros and cons of your NP role?

Pro's:

- schedule (three 12's, all day shift).

- broad scope of patient presentation, pt's come in with ACS, arrhythmias, valvulopathies, HF, congenital disease, pericardial disease, HCM, etc superimposed with other medical problems. Lots of complex and challenging patients.

- supportive Cardiology attendings, collegial relationship with Hospitalist Medicine attendings who act as resource if we have questions about Internal Medicine issues.

- team-based practice (attending MD-NP collaboration) but good degree of autonomy and ability to follow same pt from admission to discharge as the primary hospital service. No residents or fellow involvement (which is a pro for me).

- no on-call

- Pharmacist, SW, Case Manager involvement in overall management

- AGACNP students rotate through service

 

Cons:

- work some weekends and holidays.

- lots of care coordination that can sometimes take you away from actual medical management

 

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