We are gathering info now........I guess my wife really lucked out since she is a RN.....Occ Health Fortune 100 company makes 80k on 40-45hrs a week Mon-Fri. Looks like becoming a NP will be a wash...
I'mgonna get my wife to chime in as she would agree!! The medical model seems so superior, to me as a outsider, and to her as a student. Maybe it's because my wife's closest friends in the medical...
I think that Salary expectation is laughable at best!! My best friends wife is head of HR at a large hospital not in a rural area about 400K live in the city. Family Practice MD are making 130-140K!...
Not at all!! I do think the handful of people just starting med school at 50-52 is pretty crazy though and yes there are a few!! You only get one chance in life go for
It's 99% administration in OHN!! Policy, procedure, documentation, my wife's nurse friends like to joke "How many bandaids did you put on today!!" OSHA, Case management, disability, workmens comp, and...
My wife is in the same boat sort of......She has a great Occ. Health job that pays extremely well with great benefits M-F 9-10hr days. Almost like a NP schedule now and makes slightly less than 80K +...
So, you've already been accepted to Med school? MCAT and all done all of the pre-reqs? If so MD hands down......seeing that you don't have a BSN I don't see how that's possible? Explain? 4 years...
^^^^^^^^ My wife makes 32/hr as a nurse when she works in the hospital not counting diffs and makes 75k/yr salary at her full time job right now in the south. Good jobs are out there just not a dime a...
my wife works with 2 doctors and over the course of the last 5 years they also have become friends. we go swimming at one of their houses etc.......well both of them are very much against np's and her...
IDK, I don't get the CRNA vs NP discussion totally different job descriptions. 1 is akin to being a computer programmer with very little patient interaction and other is like being the help desk with...
Wondering what type of workload some of you gals/guys have. My wife feels abused and from the outside looking in, my perspective, it sure seems like she is involved in alot at times. She is paid well...
On call 24/7 is the norm the crappy thing is we argue a good bit about it. When she has her head above water she is fine, that rarely is the case though, most of the time she is always behind...
I don't think so, especially since you guys are empty nesters go for it!! Communicate, see each other on weekends, and all will be well!! I would say 1 year though not
I wish you the best of luck. My wife is currently in school to be a FNP and who knows where she will end up once she graduates. She has 5 years Neuro-rehab experience, but now only does that ultra...
If you have the means to follow your heart then by all means do that!! My wife has been on the teeter-totter on med school vs NP and it looks like NP will win out. She loves being a nurse and doesn't...
Wow, I can't say I'm surprised from what I've read, I'm stil shocked at the lowball salaries. My wife has been torn between NP and staying where she is at for the last year. She runs a Occ. Health...