CuriousConundrum

Autonomy. Flexibility. Compensation. Status within the organization. I don't really want to interact with management officials or support staff unnecessarily with a preference to work from home and have since before COVID, and I can do whatever...

Check out American College of Lifestyle Medicine. If you can segue a specialty change after this then cool. There is a faction of us, like you, who are gravely disenchanted with the traditional model of sick care and treating "stable" patients who ...

I had to describe, in detail, various perceived dimension of nursing practice and how I met those to come in as a NP III-5 or nurse III or whatever it was. A committee then reviewed those answers and my application details and weighed in on where the...

How many patients in the psych hospital are admitted for "acute anxiety/depression?" I rounded on psych hospitals for many years, and the overwhelming majority of patients were seriously mentally ill with a good subset of those refractory to standar...

Ten years ago, I could literally call (because I often did) random organizations and get a PMHNP job, get emailed credentialing documents to sign, and start working. At one time, I had a full-time job and four side gigs bending around my schedule. ...

Do you own your own?

I used to make about 2800/semester to supervise NP clinical rotations. I honestly didn't do a thing but go to their training site once and ask if they were showing up and behaving.

It sounds like you'd be ceasing your perceived low income for many years, followed by some very deep debt or other obligations (military, USPHS, etc.), and then at about 55 years, you may start making the living you dream of. I would get a dif...

The "going the extra mile" has nothing to do with reimbursement equity. Altruism has noting to do with compensation. Reimbursement is entirely a product of decision complexity and procedure. If someone wants to pay me extra to fill out a form, gre...

There are some limitations, yes. I had a contract for several years with a group that rounded on inpatient units. About three months before I resigned, we were given an attestation to sign declaring that we were not attending to patients from outs...

I disagree. You wouldn't be telling them what to do with the note. That's on them. I just tell them I'll include that documentation, and they disseminate it however they choose. We won't send it anywhere without a release. I do mind putti...

I thought ATCs had to be examined by AMEs (aviation medical examiners) as pilots do. This would be something to kick back to them. For the pilots, ADHD is a 100% no go. Frankly, I think for ATCs it's even more of a problem. On anothe...

Absolutely anyone can be hired as an executive or administrator.

Read the Stahl book from cover to cover. Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications 4th Edition Then supplement based on that. You don't necessarily need a lot of resources. You only need repetition. O...

I only list the initial I'm legally obligated to list with professional signatures, APRN. There are a number of diplomas and certifications available in healthcare, and most of us don't know what most of them are. If you feel you need to explain th...

It will take some getting used to. You may ask that your first two weeks of patients are so have 20 minute gaps between appts so you can get used to the charting and stopping people from talking too much so you can complete your interview. Take the...

Please don't displace your unfulfilled desires to other nurses. Wouldn't you believe NPs would be consulted upon to design a residency?

I'm definitely aware of the difference and have long castigated the vapid and shallow nature of both RN and NP training. I don't think a residency is a solution. As we see, nurses don't generally do a good job of designing clinical education. I don't...

If NP programs are needing their graduates to be residents it sort of defeats the role of the NP. If you want to electively engage in a residency, DNP or anything else that blows your skirt up then have at it. PAs have elective residencies. Even the ...

Require a graduate admission's exam and GPA minimum > 3.0. State boards disapprove and customers avoid online schools that don't have a university building kids can walk into and take classes in. Removing "nursing theory" and "community health" ...

I would think anything radiology would be the the field any NP is the least prepared to operate in.

Remote, from home work, with as much hand holding (I.e. doing nothing administrative or communication) outside of direct F2F patient care with maximum reimbursement. 😄

Who gets the other 10%?

All parties are generally duty bound to investigate. The behavior, as you describe, warranted seclusion, and as you say you had a lawful order to do so. If that's all true, you're fine. Quitting immediately could have board-related neglect issues, ...

Despite being in the DSM, it's not universally agreed upon as being "real," and it's not so much the role to sway a psychiatrist as it is to observe and report. In 10 years, I've had exactly one patient that I suspected had it in the way media portr...