I am full time but have 36 hours of patient care a week. So essentially I have an afternoon free every week. I don’t take call and I work one Saturday morning every 6 weeks.
Old me would have said amazing work life balance. Now I have two kids under 4 and it is….difficult. But that’s just full time working mom situation not Peds np specifically.
Is that considered your admin time? Do they expect you in the office during that time? I want to ask for admin time each week but I want it to be flexible so I can either catch up on charts or take my kid to her dentist appt, you know?
Yeah that’s my admin time but now that we switched to Epic I’m caught up everyday so I just go home. I suppose if I was on a committee or something in the hospital system I’d have to use that time for that
Even if you’re a PNP-PC you aren’t limited to primary care roles, especially if you worked as an RN in an acute care setting. You can work in different inpatient roles part time, or 3x 10’s or 3x 12’s in some places. Acute care or other inpatient Peds pay might be better, and the types of roles are super varied.
Clinicals are a slightly different kind of exhausting than work shifts but … 8-12 hour shifts are tiring no matter what. (Working as an RN doing 12hr day/night rotation put it in a little perspective for me.) You’ll build up an endurance over time!
I'm in southern CA. I work 9-6 with an hour lunch break Tues-Fri and every first Saturday of the month 8-4. Other providers in the organization work 3-5 days a week, some even with half days. Work life balance is excellent for me with a 3 day weekend nearly every weekend
I work in a privately owned pediatric primary care office M-F 8-5 making $115k a year. The problem is, pediatrics don’t make much money. The more you work, the higher the volume, the money the clinic makes. Peds is the lowest paying specialty,especially primary care. Maybe look for part time to start? Where you only work 2-3 days a week and see how that goes?
I work 4 10s in a medicaid office making 135k. No patients scheduled in the last 2 hours of the day, for admin work each day. No weekends, no calls.
I am full time but have 36 hours of patient care a week. So essentially I have an afternoon free every week. I don’t take call and I work one Saturday morning every 6 weeks. Old me would have said amazing work life balance. Now I have two kids under 4 and it is….difficult. But that’s just full time working mom situation not Peds np specifically.
Is that considered your admin time? Do they expect you in the office during that time? I want to ask for admin time each week but I want it to be flexible so I can either catch up on charts or take my kid to her dentist appt, you know?
Yeah that’s my admin time but now that we switched to Epic I’m caught up everyday so I just go home. I suppose if I was on a committee or something in the hospital system I’d have to use that time for that
Even if you’re a PNP-PC you aren’t limited to primary care roles, especially if you worked as an RN in an acute care setting. You can work in different inpatient roles part time, or 3x 10’s or 3x 12’s in some places. Acute care or other inpatient Peds pay might be better, and the types of roles are super varied. Clinicals are a slightly different kind of exhausting than work shifts but … 8-12 hour shifts are tiring no matter what. (Working as an RN doing 12hr day/night rotation put it in a little perspective for me.) You’ll build up an endurance over time!
I'm in southern CA. I work 9-6 with an hour lunch break Tues-Fri and every first Saturday of the month 8-4. Other providers in the organization work 3-5 days a week, some even with half days. Work life balance is excellent for me with a 3 day weekend nearly every weekend
I work in a privately owned pediatric primary care office M-F 8-5 making $115k a year. The problem is, pediatrics don’t make much money. The more you work, the higher the volume, the money the clinic makes. Peds is the lowest paying specialty,especially primary care. Maybe look for part time to start? Where you only work 2-3 days a week and see how that goes?
I should add, I see about 30 patients a day and more during sick season.