What are the low stress nurse practitioner jobs

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I am currently working at a nursing home as a NP and trying to expand my career horizons . My NP friends are working at the physician offices and retail pharmacies are complaints of lots of stress. What are the low stress nurse practitioner jobs?

Specializes in ER.

Where I live at, working for the government was a sweet gig.

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Long term care, by far. Nothing glamorous, but you generally work at your own pace.

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Marry a doctor ? no stress there! you can even audition for real housewives or married to medicine ?

I'm just joking!

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On 1/22/2019 at 10:09 PM, zoidberg said:

It seems the derm/esthetics crowd has a sweet gig if you’re into that sort of thing

So if I want to do esthetics, which NP program do I need to join? Family nurse practitioner?

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Specializes in Vascular Neurology and Neurocritical Care.

I know money is not everything, but when I hear "low stress" I also hear "low salary".

Think about that. Because if not, then you'll be writing a post about "low salary" and how that can be remedied.

Bottom line is that in this line of work, you'll be hard pressed to find something without stress, besides the few options that others have written about above.

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11 hours ago, soljhs said:

So if I want to do esthetics, which NP program do I need to join? Family nurse practitioner?

You could probably get away with ANP or FNP. FNP would give you better access to peds who do have their fair share of derm issues such as eczema. But might be fine with ANP. What I would suggest is calling some local derm placed to see what their preferences would be and gauge how many younger than 13 they treat.

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Specializes in Emergency medicine.
On 1/22/2019 at 7:14 PM, lucylucy5240 said:

I am currently working at a nursing home as a NP and trying to expand my career horizons . My NP friends are working at the physician offices and retail pharmacies are complaints of lots of stress. What are the low stress nurse practitioner jobs?

What were your reasons for pursuing the NP?

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Some onsite workplace clinics can be lower stress, particularly the ones for white collar. Mostly rashes and colds, the occasional injury due to ergonomics. Manufacturing sites are more difficult.

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Gotta say, as a potential patient, this conversation has got me a little worried....

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On 5/10/2019 at 5:32 PM, offlabel said:

Gotta say, as a potential patient, this conversation has got me a little worried....

Could you expand on why? I'm not seeing anything written that discusses potential harm to patients.

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LTC is where the low stress is at! Seriously, your employer may have some productivity expectations, but it is mostly at your own pace.

Even better to have a remote access EHR, you can look things up from home and get ready to go to work.

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On 4/22/2019 at 8:57 AM, djmatte said:

You could probably get away with ANP or FNP. FNP would give you better access to peds who do have their fair share of derm issues such as eczema. But might be fine with ANP. What I would suggest is calling some local derm placed to see what their preferences would be and gauge how many younger than 13 they treat.

Actually, you can get away with any of the adult specialties. Most aesthetic/dermatology jobs (at least in my state of FL) only require an unrestricted NP license- no mention of specialty. However, they typically do want some previous experience in the field. It is worth noting that you can't just "do" aesthetics- you would have to get your foot in the door through connections and either find a surgeon that is willing to train you to do laser treatments and injectables, or you would have to pay for that training and get certified on your own to become marketable for that field. I'm going through this right now that's how I know lol.

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