Options for Family Nurse Practitioners?

[nurse_bri, BSN, RN]

Hi everyone!

I'm interested in pursuing my nursing career further and have been leaning heavily towards the FNP specialty. My question is, what exactly can you do as a Family Nurse Practitioner, as in specialty wise? I know you can do primary care, emergency room, dermatology, etc. It seems like there's a broad spectrum of options/specialties to choose from and wanted to hear what some other options are. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond!

[PMHNP Man, MSN, APRN, NP]

I think it would be left up to your imagination, learning ability, interests, and board approval.

I've known FNPs work for ortho, cards, peds, the health dept, schools, urgent care, medicine, hospice, nephro, psych hospital H&P rounding, and someone was telling me about one at a podiatry office(?). The most comprehensive evaluation of a knee I've ever read before was in the last couple of weeks by a FNP covering for an ortho service.

[LilPeanut, MSN, RN, NP]

But FNPs are being increasingly limited in hospitals, because they are not critical care focused and their education is too broad.

I think the better choice is to figure out which specialty you would really like to do, then figure out which kind of NP you need to be for that.

[PMHNP Man, MSN, APRN, NP]

8 hours ago, LilPeanut said:

But FNPs are being increasingly limited in hospitals, because they are not critical care focused and their education is too broad.

I think the better choice is to figure out which specialty you would really like to do, then figure out which kind of NP you need to be for that.

Why is a hospital service necessarily involved in critical care?

[LilPeanut, MSN, RN, NP]

3 hours ago, PMHNP Man said:

Why is a hospital service necessarily involved in critical care?

Not all of them are, but some are, and where they are the most utilized is often in critical care settings.

[HarleyvQuinn, MSN, RN, NP]

On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 10:35 PM, PMHNP Man said:

I think it would be left up to your imagination, learning ability, interests, and board approval.

I've known FNPs work for ortho, cards, peds, the health dept, schools, urgent care, medicine, hospice, nephro, psych hospital H&P rounding, and someone was telling me about one at a podiatry office(?). The most comprehensive evaluation of a knee I've ever read before was in the last couple of weeks by a FNP covering for an ortho service.

My Podiatrist recently hired an FNP to work in his office seeing patients. I'm currently in FNP school and plan on specializing ortho. Duke offers a post-masters one year program for ortho to prepare the NP to work in the specialty. I'd like to attend that.