I'd appreciate all your input! I've been a research nurse for 5 years and have always had an interested in midlevel work and am ready to pursue. I'm having a hard time deciding which route to go. I've talked to both NPS and PAs. Many of the PAs from my clinic were nurses. I hear more negatives about the job from NPs than I do PAs. The floor was not a good fit for me. It's hard to explain, but I'd say I didn't like the technical aspects at all (hanging blood, fluids, giving meds etc). I liked the monitoring and assessments and teaching. I also like it when my coworkers come to me and report labs out of range, or what they should do in certain situations that are not always clear. I like to direct the care and I feel I'm more confident in that than I was hanging blood. I think it's the equipment that makes me nervous, to be honest!! Since I have limited hands on experience, do many of you NPs out there think the PA route would be better for me? I've already read the threads about PAs and RNs going to NP school without experience. Appreciate your time to read this. Many thanks....