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I do think it depends on what your practice will look like. Will you have your own patients, or will you be seeing walk-ins and taking some of the burden off of the other providers when needed. The other posters have mentioned a ramp up time. While i felt capable out of school, the number of patients looking for a new provider just weren't there where I practice. That being said, I do all the above. I see our walk-ins, have my own patients, and help out the MD I work with if she has a busy day, has to go round, etc. I have a base salary with a WRVU goal. Once I reach said goal, I get roughly $35 dollars per WRVU that I accrue. For example, a CPT code of 99213 gives a WRVU rating of 0.97. So, if I have met my monthly WRVU goal, then I would get roughly $33 for that visit. I hope you're still following me. With this, I also get a regular salary. My WRVU goal is actually achievable, and I get a print out of all of my numbers for each month (I also keep track myself). Some months I am above my goal, other months I'm below. These "bonuses" are paid out quarterly. I really like this structure because I have a base salary, that of course does not change, with the potential to make more based on production. Being a new provider to my area, this is ideal for me. If I don't reach my goal, my salary is still there. If I do reach my goal, he it's just profit from there on. Also, by having all of these numbers available, I have tools to use when my next contract negotiation comes up. I hope this helps somewhat. I like production, and I have colleagues that work on pure production alone. However, as a new provider, it's going to take time to build up your own patients. So, in my opinion, I would try for a similar structure as I outlined above, with a renegotiation after 1 year. Just my two cents.

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Seriously? Shut him down. Tell him you have a boyfriend and you're not interested in speaking/texting/chatting with him. You don't have to be friends with every person in your cohort to succeed in nursing school. Trust me, you'll realize this by the end of your program. Just to be honest, a guy that into himself is going to be offended no matter how nicely or easily you tell him to back off. My opinion, go all out and tell him to shove it. lol.

I would also remove the "hours" from each clinical roatation. Just my two cents. Good luck in finding a job.

"I light up when teaching anything to anyone" Sounds like your answer. Lectures, coupled with clinical instruction, would allow you to stay somewhat hands on. Being a nurse practitioner is definitely more hands on, and you are still dealing with families, etc. Just from reading your post, it seems education may be more suited for you, but my opinion is based on your above post and without any knowledge of you as a person, so it may be worthless ;-). Good Luck.

Network. Network. Network. I did this while I was in clinicals and it paid off. The facility I worked for as an RN basically created a job for me with a great physician. She knew my skill set, and basically went to bat for me. She knew the value I could bring to her practice. My point is, not all job opportunities are going to be posted on indeed, monster, etc. Sometimes, networking is the key. I actually had multiple offers from other physicians that I did not complete clinicals with, mainly due to the physician I am with now discussing me with others/ Personally, it is worth it to me and my family. Whether or not this would be the case for you, is something you would have to decide. Good luck!!

It would also depend on the details of the offer, such as benefits, reimbursement, etc. I am a new grad NP and had a set number in my head that I felt I had to be at. Needless to say, I was offered a job with a physician I did clinical rotations with, she's awesome, but I was not offered my "magical number". However, production has been worked into my contract, which will allow me to make much more than my initial "magical number". So, while my base salary isn't quite where I wanted it to be, I will earn much more than if I would have got what I wanted initially. My point is, look at all things considered within an offer, and don't get hung up on one specific number. There are several ways for us to be paid as practitioners, and you should look at some of these options, be realistic, and do the math to see what works for you and yours. Good luck!!

Haha this is true for many of us I think! House was my go to show, and I tried to come up with my own differential and see how I did compared to House and his residents!

Who cares? You were accepted!! But it is tough to answer your question without some other details such as GPA, etc.

Stared an ADN program with zero experience, and had pretty much never been in a hospital until my first child was born. Today I passed ANCC and I am officially a nurse practitioner. It is tough, stressful, and pretty much miserable at times, but very worth it. Experience would obviously be a plus, but you are able, and it can be done! Good luck.

I am proud to say that I took the ANCC exam today and passed!! Hallelujah, it's over! I promised myself I would come back and share my experience on the site I viewed so many times. However, I feel I must share a little bit of my backstory. I've been a nurse for 6 years. Had experience in pretty much every department within my hospital except OB. Secondly, I have a 3.5 GPA which includes an associates degree in business management, as well as my nursing degrees. I was by far not a straight A, kill myself to get straight A's kind of guy. However, I am pretty proud of my GPA, but did take some time to have a little bit of a life. I also have 3 children 11, 3, and 16 months, so life was hectic. I also worked full time, 3 twelve hour shifts per week. Anyways, my point is, I did what I could with the time that I had, and didn't spend hours upon hours studying while in school. Now that's out of the way, I graduated August 12th and tested September 6th. Unless you did not retain any content that you learned in school, I feel studying for months is not the best option. You can't retain every piece of information that you come across, so why try? I did have a plan to pick only 1-2 resources to utilize for studying. Believe it or not, some authors will deviate a little on treatment options, etc which fit what they personally do. Not that this is right or wrong, but if you get two authors whose information varies somewhat, it can throw your brain for a loop and make it harder to retain the content, I feel. With that being said, being maxed out on funds by school, tests, license, etc. I only bought the Liek book. My plan was to study Leik daily for 3-4 weeks and test. I wanted to read through the book, highlighting important information, and then go through again and make note cards. However, that didn't happen, procrastination, responsibilities, life, for in the way. I did also purchase Leiks app and competed all the questions before studying, averaging around a 70% I did manage to get about 3/4ths of the book read, and started to focus on things I thought were important towards the end. Needless to say, I scheduled my AANP exam for Sept 11th. My parents wanted to do something nice for me for graduation, so I asked them to pay for the ANCC exam, and they agreed. I mainly scheduled both because I have a job lined up, my wife is going to stay home when I start my new job, and I wanted to use my first tests as a trial run if I failed. Both were fairly quick to authorize me to test, and both allowed me to sit prior to having official transcripts. Anyways, I received authorization to test from the ANCC and decided to just go for it. Scheduled it for about 6 days after I got authorization. I continued in Leik but realized I wouldn't get through it all. About 3-4 days before I tested, a friend let me borrow Hollier's APEA review CD's. I decided to abandon the rest of Leik and listen to as many of the CD's I could taking notes on every topic. This was very valuable. Leik was also a great source, I just didn't give myself enough time to work through it. Her app is worth the 20$ and is the same questions as in the back of the book. Yes there are errors, and JNC guidelines need updated, but if you have to look it up, it helps to make you retain it. So, I basically studied hard for roughly 2 weeks. And by hard I mean 1-2 hours in Leik and 1-2 cds per day with Hollier. Needless to say, I would recommend a month of studying with 2 resources. A friend gave me Fitzgerald's review book from her live course, and i felt it went a little too deep for my liking, so I quickly abandoned it. But the most important tip I can give you is not to kill yourself trying to study every resource and know every piece of information about every disease and their treatments, it's just too much. Plus, the ANCC exam had maybe 5-10% recall information. The rest was critical thinking and "here's your patient scenarios". Even the majority of non clinical questions required working through the problem. Sorry for the long post, but after reading posts of "I studied for 6 months" and "I studied 15 resources", I was terrified. I honestly wanted to encourage future test takers to pick 1-2 resources and give them an honest effort. If you want to read but know you'll be distracted by something and unable to really concentrate, the. Save it for the next day! Don't kill yourself! Lastly, believe in yourself, be confident, and rock that thing out! If an average to above average student who worked full time, has 3 kids, and a fairly busy social life can he tit done in one shot, you can too! Sorry for the long post but I wanted to give an honest opinion and maybe help those who are looking for a post that didn't say I study for 12 years, I bought every resource, or i failed it 14 times. The test is tough, as it should be, but definitely manageable. A little side note, I did not mark any questions, and I did not review any questions. I made sure I read the question thoroughly, understood what they were asking, and chose what I thought was the best answer. Feel free to reach out to me if I can be of any help to any of you. I'm typically on here every 2-3 days or so.

I never said I or anyone else would be looking for questions on subjects they prefer. I simply stated that it is common knowledge that if you're tested in areas that you're more familiar with you will do better, and therefore would be more likely to pass boards. That would not make you a better prepared NP just because you lucked into some questions that suited subjects you were more comfortable with. As you previously said, I'm not gonna let you put words in my mouth, and twist what I said. Secondly, as I previously said, we'll be here for guidance when you need it...

lwsoccjs: Gonna watch this username to pop up on a "suggestions/advice on how to pass boards" thread...... Scary is being that confident without ever practicing.

I definitely feel they could be at the same competency level. It's the luck of the draw in terms of the questions you get on your exam. Now if every single person took the same exact test then your arguenenr may be more valid... But your point is off, that's like saying that all nurse who stopped their NCLEX at 75 questions are automatically better nurses than others who went to 77, 97, 120, etc. There is no evidence to support the arguement you made. Everyone knows those questions are random. If you get more questions on things you know or have studied, you'll do better. If your lucky and got questions you knew versus ole' Miss 65% who got questions on material she was weaker in or didn't study, does that make you better? To me, it doesn't...

Yeah. That would be good information to give your potential employer when they asked how you prepared for your national certification. Oh wait... they won't. They ask if you have license, and that's pretty much all they care about. Talk about scary. But be judgemental. I've actually worked with and been treated by practitioners who took boards more than once, and I have had full faith in their abilities. One bad test or exam score does not define how well a provider is able to practice. At least in my opinion it doesn't.