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I am on the fence about leaving my current specialty all together due to poor management and lack of physician collaboration. To stay in my current specialty I am going to have to move which is not feasible. I do love my current speciality and had le...

I think a perfect job for me will be 1. sustainable work hours and stress level, fair compensation that reflect the nature and hours of your work. 2. good boss who cares and nontoxic coworkers. 3. supportive collaborating physician(s) ...

I worked as a NP in an outpatient clinic for 4 years and just started a new inpatient NP job 3 months ago. Two of my current 3 coworkers are leaving for another specialty shortly after I started. They are offered >10% raise for same if not less bu...

I am hoping that I have made a good decision switching to inpatient consult service from an outpatient clinic in the same health system. I did not really have a choice because my boss is awful. Could you share your thoughts on the pro and cons of out...

thanks all for your replies. I have worked in-patient for two weeks and would like to give some input and hopefully will get this thread going. In my opinion, inpatient is definitely more fast pace and stimulating comparing to outpatient. ...

I am now a NP for almost 4 years and did not miss a minute of bedside nursing. I enjoy the responsibility and rewards of being a provider. Being exempt is also nice. I was never very good at procedures and so I find specialties without a lot of proce...

I know this post is one year old but the topic of autonomy and collaberation has always been on my mind. I believe physician collaboration is paramount to APPs because we do not have the same amount of education and training as docs (I guess this imp...

Hello all, I came across a few surgery APP positions during my job hunting process. These positions do not require RNFA and are mostly clinic based. What do you think of working as a NP in clinic based surgical specialties? I do not have any OR ...

Neurology. I took the only job available to me after graduating and grew to like this specialty a lot. Neurology is about longitudinal management. A lot of neurological problems do not have a clinic pictures but the problems mostly can be managed and...

I called HR today regarding to the above question. They think that 0.5FTE+0.5FTE (in the same company, two different departments) equal part-time benefit. They are not entirely sure and will get back to me. Anyone has any experience on this?

I totally agree with you, each job has its pros and cons. The only reason I still did not leave my current job is the two 4 hour admin time. I do like my field, however, no one cares at my work. Anyway, I wish I could have started looking sooner beca...

thanks for sharing! How were you trained into this role? Are you overall happy at your job? I actually was offered a position in an outpatient orthopedic surgery clinic seeing patients who are non-operative. I turned down that job partly due to ...

We never got briefed with what to do when a clinic patient voiced suicidal ideation and a plan. The patient told me that he has a plan but he would like to get help and agreed to go to ED. I perceived that he has no immediate danger of hurting himsel...

Just wondering if you have any flexibility in your current NP job? if so, what's your specialty? one of my coworkers went to medical weight loss and got to work remotely one day a week. I believe some employers will work with you as well (work throug...

thanks! anyone knows the following question? if a patient says he has no immediate plan of self harm but had thought about plans at times and the patient is calm cooperative and is asking to get help, do we need to call security or rapid response or ...

I have dealt with this situation a lot when I first started. I think people tend to associate MD title, male gender, and white hair with experience and authority. If a patient has had bad experience with APPs in the past, he/she tends to generalize t...

I'm looking for a new job in our health system (probably clinic positions) but most positions come only with 4 hours of admin days per week. My current management sucks but NPs have 8 hour admin days per week which is really nice. It's really difficu...

I am supposed to see patients from 8am to 12p and 1p to 4:30p on my full work days. Most of the time, I only take about 30minutes for lunch. Wed and Thursday afternoons are my admin days. If I have finished all my work, I typically will go home and c...

I work as a nurse for almost three years and insert IVs all the time, but when it comes to myself being stuck for IV or blood draw, I'm a big baby. I got so nervous and sweaty, and sometimes I feel dizzy. So today I went in to have my blood tested an...

I'm 37, nursing is my 2nd career. I have worked in a small hospital for 6 years and loved my work. Finally I got my dream job in a large hospital ICU and started there 2 months ago. Things are going well but... Most of my coworkers/preceptors are in ...

I love hospital work and trying to set up NP clinical with hospitalists in the hospital I work. The hospital is a small rural hospital and the hospitalists are in partnership with a big hospital. I tried to reach the administrator for their group for...

I have given my two weeks notice in and I'm tempting to call off on my last day. I was wondering why my coworkers have been doing this but now I totally understand. I was treated very differently in my last two weeks: People order lunch take-outs wit...

Thanks for the great advices. I did go in and worked my last day. Surprisingly someone went to get a huge cake, pizza and pop and threw me a party. I got to say goodbye with everyone. I was so glad I did not call off. Six years went by so fast and I...

anyone who has AANP membership can check for me how much the uptodate discount is? any other way to get uptodate cheaper for a student? thanks