PMHNP

christine,

I'm actually a family np looking to add my psych NP. I've looked at st. joseph but wasn't able to find the cost per credit. do you know what it is? I worked for 7 years as the medical provider at an in-patient psychiatric hospital. I'm about one year now into a family practice job and I'm really thinking I'd like to get back to psych and work as a practitioner. I have several friends who work as psych NP's and they seem satisfied. I think in some places it might be initially difficult to find what your looking for but when you do the pay is usually better than for family. I'd love to hear back from you. I'm considering spring admission.

I am a brand new PMHNP-BC. A big downside is the number of patients they are pushing on you for outpatient psych. The pay is pretty good. The pay around here for outpatient is a good 15K higher than I was offered at a hospital which they said I would see about 12 patients a day. Outpatient pushing 15-21 patients if they all show up that day.

I worked with a Psych np that left outpatient to come to inpatient because of the patient load in outpatient. She like the time allowed for inpatient but the pay was much less I'm sure. Presently in family practice I may see anywhere from 15 to 25 a day. They'd like me to see more if more patients would come i'd have to. However, i know the pt load numbers in psych and family aren't really comparable. one of my former co-workers works with a PACT team and he goes out and sees patient where they are, home, street where ever. he really likes it, but not many of those type jobs are available.