I'm facing a bit of a dilemma. I'm a new FNP grad (May of this year) and ended up with a job at the site I did my clinical rotation. For reasons that make sense to almost nobody, I refuse to quit my RN job (it pays very well, I get a pension, I have a flexible schedule) and want to instead work as an NP 1 day a week. My RN employer offered me a promotion to NP but because the NPs essentially do nothing but H&Ps and have to work 4 10 hour days for only slightly more money, I declined because I want more real experience.
The problem I'm facing is that I don't think I actually want to work in the family practice office where I currently work. As I'm only there 1 day a week it is difficult to establish relationships with patients, and even the new patients end up following up with the MD (he and I are the only 2 providers at this office). When I see the doctor's patient's it's usually for more trivial manners as his patients are not generally receptive to me significantly altering their plan of care for chronic issues (which I can understand).
I think my actual goal would be to work in an urgent care as they seem most likely to hire someone for 1 day a week and nobody really cares who they see at an urgent care. Unfortunately, I have very little knowledge of how to function outside a family practice office. My entire RN career has been at a forensic psychiatric hospital with very little "real nursing" and my NP school didn't force us to do rotations in specialties so 90% of my clinical experience was in an internal medicine office. As a result, I can't do many procedures well (if at all) and I can't read Xrays. I also have no experience treating people younger than teenagers as we don't accept them as patients at my office and my NP program counted anyone under 18 as pediatric.
Is there any way I can go about getting experience somewhere else? While it sounds crazy, I don't even really care about getting paid but I think if I walked into a specialty office or urgent care offering to "volunteer" they'd think I'm crazy. Any thoughts?