Nurse practitioner or registered nurse?

Hi! I am an RN with my BSN, TNCC, ONC, and ACLS/PALS credentials. I think every nurse will have a different answer for your question, but these are my opinions: Best Advantages - Currently a good paying job with some schedule flexibility.

There are lots of fields to work in (L&D, Peds, Trauma, Psych, etc.), so it rarely gets boring. There is always a hospital, dialysis center, CH clinic, or senior center wherever you go, so moving around and finding employment is not as much of an obstacle, as, say, a chemical engineer. Most people who are nurses are generally good people who have caring personalities, which make them fun to work with.

Disadvantages - Everyone and their uncle is going into nursing right now as the job market tightens, so a lot of the perks and privileges nurses once enjoyed are slowly going away (job flexibility, promotions, easy transfers, monies for education, etc). Many hospitals are moving away from the healthcare model and moving toards a business model of management, so you spend a lot of your day dealing with customer service issues and trying to please people so they won't send a complaint letter to your manager. Also staffing cutbacks and higher acuity patients are a way of life now as hospitals are trying to run as lean as possible.

Expect to do more with less. The job is very physically demanding. Back sprains and injuries have ended a lot of nursing careers early.

Transitions from RN to NP - I looked into this seriously and spoke with a lot of NPs in my hospital. This is what I found out: Many of them do not make anymore money than a floor nurse working full time. This is due to several factors, but liability insurance for NPs is higher because more of them are targets for lawsuits.

Plus, depending on the NP job you work, you may be working salary versus hourly, which equates to working 60 hours a week for no extra pay. But then again, you are not the Commode Queen on a daily basis! Day to day RN life in most hospital floor settings: Come to work.

Get report. Take people to the commode. Pass pills.

Take more people to the commode. Chart. Take more people to the commode.

Take calls. Pass more pills. Take more people to the commode.

Reposition the patients. Take the patients you just repositioned to the commode. Chart.

Give report. As you walk out, pass family member who wants you to take Grandma to the commode. Run!

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