any NPs in NYC? Any former ER nurses now NPs? Looking for advice...

npingeorgia · May 28, 2006

Hi,

Just wanted to say that I have been practicing as a NP for the last year in Georgia. I have been an ER nurse for the last 14 years with 4 years as a flight nurse. It was a bigger transition than I ever dreamed of. No regrets though. I continued to work in the same ER that I had worked as a nurse so the physicians already knew me, my personality as well as the attending physicians (some of them) knew me too. The nurses were great and some were even protective since I was the first nurse practitioner to be hired in the ER . We had always used PA's until I came along. I have recently left after my first year and I was very pleased to see that they interviewed both NP/PA for my position. NP's are still making the way for the next generation.

ERNP · Jun 8, 2006

No regrets about moving from ED RN to EDNP. Love it. Thought that I probably would, that's why I picked it.

What got me moving in that direction was this twisted kind of thought process that I was doing it anyway and not getting paid for it. Working on the night shift with lots of beds and one doc meant you got the history, you got the physical, you got the labs, the xrays... blah, blah, blah....

Then when everything was back you woke the doctor to tell him the diagnosis. He came out and did the writing, checked the patient and they were sent home.

If it was something really bad we woke him up earlier in the process, but his sleepy presence didn't necessarily mean his brain had fully engaged by the time he hit the bedside. So we carried on while he caught up with where we were in the resuscitative process or whatever we were doing.

It was a system that worked well. Thought if I could do that I could do it and get paid for it.