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I think this is par for this particular niche market. Nevertheless, I am no longer doing pain management and strongly discourage others from doing it as well.

Guys that lost their licenses trying to tell me what to RX for in detail. Multiple bait and switches. Horrible support staff. 80% plus of patients were drug seeking. Fight broke out between two techs in procedure room… not sure if patient was on table at the time. No one told me a thing about it, some played it off like nothing happened or it was no big deal. Punches were thrown from what I I found out. No benefits, bad pay, another provider hit me up to write him some narco 10/325s etc and when I wouldn’t he cussed me out. But hey it was a quick start easy onboard.

So I wanted out of this rat nest city I was living in population 100k working for a MD with a refugee mentality and employees with slave mentalities. It was easy money. I took all my vacation days at once and while on vacation I looked into some jobs. Once back at the rat nest I set up 6 interviews in a city 3 hours away. I made the mistake of taking the lowest paying one with no benefits because it was a quick easy start. I told doctor refugee and his band of merry slaves to sit on it and off I went to the pain clinic. It was horrible. I was expected to see 28 plus patients a day and basically give them whatever they wanted and sale they patients on procedures. One of the providers asked me to write him some scripts for narcotics and my supervisor at first tried to tell me I was supposed to help out the other providers… but then backed off. Turned out he lost his license over drug addiction and writing scripts. Another supervisor also had lost his license for butchering patients… seriously. Then they tried to get me to write scripts for a brand new NP who wasn’t credentialed yet. Not to mention the md who I was selling procedures for was trying to get me to write scripts for his patients the way the patients wanted and former doctor butcher was trying to get me to write scripts for patients who didn’t tell me they used to get certain from their other specialist whom they had seen in years. Finally one day almost a month into this joke, a fight broke out between two techs in the procedure room. Not sure if a patient was on the table or not. Not one person came to me and explained what had happened. I eventually went and asked. The brand new NP made the statement that this sort of stuff is “fairly common”. How would they know? And one of my worthless MAs tried to act like nothing happened at all. That was my last day at the pain clinic. I wonder if they will issue my last check? The owner didn’t bother to respond to my resignation email that mentioned the fight. And my drug addict supervisor said “no problem” when I told him I was resigning immediately. What a bunch of dirtbags.

Thanks.

OMG. I am in my third year and wanted out of the job I was in due to my boss being a total dirtbag. I found a QuickStart easy onboarding pain job. The pay was bad and the benefits were absent. They wanted me carry 28-32 plus patients a day… It was supposed to be easy… Then once I started things… changed for the worse. This is s very politically correct heavily monitored forum so I won’t go into specifics. My supervisors had histories, the patients were “grumpy” my coworkers were “low information” people. The hours sucked, the pay sucked, no benefits… These are new grad traps. I got all kinds of stories… There are a lot of new grad traps out there. Hope my new job goes better.

So I am a FNP-BC in my 3rd year of practice and I tried to see if I could get picked up as a RN in a hospital recently.., NOPE! Does anyone else find this totally ridiculous? During a global pandemic. Supposibly it’s the hiring managers that are so against this… Anyways, I wonder why there is a shortage of nurses in the hospitals. Anyone else tried to add a California license? I sent my stuff in back in late March and they are still saying they don’t have everything, and there is no one you can get ahold of to find out what’s going on either… So here’s what I wanted to get off my chest… Recently I took a NP pain management job because my career was going nowhere with the company I was working for and there are tons of NP jobs in certain places I am licensed to work and I got some experience. Anyways, the pain job was a quick start easy onboarding thing, so I took it and was all I will just bounce if it sucks. Sure enough the grass wasn’t greener. It was beyond anything I have ever heard of or seen. Let me know if you want to here about what it’s like going into pain management as a NP… and if you know anything about going back to RN once being a NP…I suspect it’s just hospital nursing politics and burnt out hiring managers stuck in 30 year mortgages and child custody battles and debt are afraid they will loose their overworked underpaid jobs if they bring on another nurse with a masters degree… any thoughts? BTW I got a better NP job and bounced out of that awful pain gig. Don’t go into pain management. You’ve been warned.