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Hello, I am a relatively new FNP who was previously worked in primary care. I was recently offered a job as a psych NP that I'm really interested in; however, I have some concerns. I have my degree as an FNP and do not have any experience in psych. The place that hired me assured me that they have hired FNPs before and that it is alright and that they would give me about a week of training/ orientation, but I'm not sure if that is enough time. They said I would mostly be doing med management and not any psychotherapy. I'm a pretty new NP as well. My other concern is that since I will have a hard time finding a different job not in psych if I decide that it isn't a good fit for me since it is very different than a lot of other NP jobs. Has anyone previously worked in psych as an NP and went on to work in a different specialty? How hard is it to change specialties? I'm not sure if I should take the job, but the place seemed really nice and I'm interested in going into psych so any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!

Thank you :) Their tuition is $1,000 per credit. I believe the program is either 63-67 credits, so it's pretty expensive. I found out I was accepted from someone in admissions who called to tell me.

Just heard back and was accepted!! Good luck! Hopefully you'll hear back soon. The person from admissions that I talked to said it would take between 1-2 weeks.

I applied for Spring 2016. Good luck to you as well! I know that this can be a really stressful time.

I just submitted the application! Can't wait to hear back from them!