nurse practitioner rounding in nursing homes in Indiana

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There are companies hiring NP to do rounds at nursing home. The offer sounds lucrative. Is it true though? They say "you get paid $30 per visit", I was thinking we were seeing 25-32 patients at primary care office visit every day during my clinical rotation, it was busy but it was doable. If I round 25 patients a day every day 5 days a week and work 49 weeks a year, it is like $183,750. Does it sound real? Will they have that many patients for me to see though?

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Specializes in Med surg long term care.

When I worked at long term care as a RN, some of them were employed by the center and had a office, other LTC was it was split up between a Dr and a NP. 

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Specializes in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

A bit of an old post, but thought I'd chime in as I'm starting a part time gig with my doc for SNF rounding. Your compensation sounds about right. SNFs, LTACs, and ALFs don't require the provider to round every day. From what I've learned so far, at most, it would be seeing a patient 3 times per week, but typically the low acuity or long-term residents only need a once a week visit. Still, the math shows nice number and SNF work as an NP is pretty lucrative. 

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barcode120x said:

A bit of an old post, but thought I'd chime in as I'm starting a part time gig with my doc for SNF rounding. Your compensation sounds about right. SNFs, LTACs, and ALFs don't require the provider to round every day. From what I've learned so far, at most, it would be seeing a patient 3 times per week, but typically the low acuity or long-term residents only need a once a week visit. Still, the math shows nice number and SNF work as an NP is pretty lucrative. 

So it is true that I could make $180K year if I round in several nursing homes. Wow. ?Thank you so much for your input

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