Absolutely!

Some people enjoy the work.

Is the pay decent…most of the base salaries I have see are around 100K 😮😮

My nursing professors told us the same. I went back to school after 5 years of nursing (ICU, clinic, perioperative, travel) and it was the best decision. Now, I’m a CRNP 🎉

@@krystallawson9317 that's awesome. Well done.

@AllAboutPurple totally depends on what program you do (FNP, AGNP, PNP, PMHNP, CRNA, etc), background experience and location. Best bet is to find some NPs in your area and field of interest and inquire. NPS can make anywhere from 90k to 200k baseline depending on those factors

@@tiff688 Thank you 😊😊

@@ccd5942 that’s awesome !

So happy it helped you learn and earn more! 💚

R u nurse practitioner? And how much experience you have to get 300k salary?

@mandeep4825 yes I'm a nurse practitioner. Only 2 years. I worked as a wound specialist for a company then found out I was paid below average. So I found another company that paid 35% more. Before quitting, my current boss decided to match me and paid 5% more for me to stay. Then we merged with a new company, and they gave me another 10% raise and promoted me to advanced care, which I can get even more bonuses for the procedures I perform.

@@nelsonjr16 thx well I m foreign students and I wanted to pursue nursing program in US and then go for nurse practitioners... Can you give any advice related to college and job ?

@mandeep4825 it helps to know the doctor who will work with you. I didn't attend the top school for NP but worked hard to pass the exam. I went to a community college first to get my associates degree, nursing license and found a job as a regular nurse. I made little money compared to now, but I used that to pursue my bachelor's degree, which I used to get paid more. Then pursued my masters degree, and was able to pay it off myself. I have no debt. I was poor to begin with but just worked very hard to earn money as I moved up the ladder.

You can do it!!

you got this melianie hopefully you’re on track to pursuing your goals

Pharma is evil

How do they actually get the money in their bank?

Probably L&D since she did it for a chunk of her career previous to her masters.

I really wish she asked about education path. I DO NOT want to work as a nurse if it’s not NICU but a lot of the grad specialities require nursing work 😢

There are different levels to nursing. You're thinking of registered nurses, or RN. She's a nurse practioner. That's like the highest level. She can prescribed medication like a doctor.

Nurse practitioners write prescriptions so they have plenty of opportunity to make money for their employers without them paying the insane cost of a physician, so really employers are the main benefactors.

When you get sick, you’ll find out. Nurses deserve more and more bonuses for the work they do.

@@thetruthsayer8347 you bonus when you sell more or make more money for the company. So now explain how a nurse is bonusing unless she's prescribing and treating to get a bonus not help people.

@@earthstar7534 that’s a lie. You can earn a bonus just by doing your job well or your company doing well financially. A bonus is simply a financial incentive to encourage a behavior. It is not necessarily tied to how much you sell. That said, a nurse is helping people by prescribing medication for treatment. Prescription for anything other than treatment will be illegal.

@@thetruthsayer8347 so explain to me exactly how one would ethically set up a bonus system in Healthcare? You can't, you are motivating people to give medical treatment based on an incentive for them.

It's expensive to go back to school especially the graduate program. And no she can't set up her own practice.

It depends on the state if she can hang a shingle independently. One can get an RN at a community college. Many will then work and complete a BSN while working. Not sure of the cost of NP programs.

She lives in DC. Nurse practitioners have their own practices in DC and in neighboring Maryland

Everything is expensive the years are going to go by anyways so you might as well go for and pay it off.

If she's making that much dough, she could have those loans paid off in a year.

Stay on your side of the border

@@tiffanyh.5788 Wouldn't wanna be near the likes of you

​@@tiffanyh.5788😂😂😂

She's not a nurse. She's a Nurse Practitioner, equivalent to Physician's Assistant

She's a nurse practitioner not a RN like you're thinking of. She's like a semi doctor and can prescribed medication.

@@alwayskeepthefaith8272and even so That pay range would still be appropriate for an RN. Yall don’t really know all they do - but just comment online 🤦🏽‍♂️

No it doesn’t!

You have no idea about the bonus structure. Pharmacy sales is not it. Too many ways to be employed as an NP. You csn work for the hospital or for avorivste group or in your own practice. Bonuses come from number metrics met: number of patients seen( efficiency) notes completed timely for billing, diagnoses code entry, discharge disposition; low readmission rates of your patients. Positive patients surveys. Im not ssyingbits impossible that its based on writing scripts but that depends on what setting your employed in. At a not for profit teaching facility., the driver isn't meds. One, patients can fill those scripts any where and two we literally give medication to patients who are unable to afford their meds.

@@jewelltones thank you for the insight into your experiences

No you don't get a bonus for prescribing lol ridiculous assumptions

i was thinking that, i already hate the healthcare system pushing drugs down people’s throats making them addicted when they could heal naturally. but idk we have to work and i don’t want to be poor :P

A Nurse practitioner is totally different from a regular nurse. For example, travel nurses will literally make double or triple what the staff nurses in the very same hospital are making. Hospitals are very desperate.

bro what?

I make $110k as an RN in a long-term facility in Massachusetts. I've been an RN for 16 yrs🤷🏾‍♀️ . There's lots of $ in healthcare. However, the workload is not for the weak!

Jealous Billy

People just hear nurse and not the practitioner part. Lol. I'm sure you've called the nurse practitioners you've encountered "doctor" because you couldn't tell the difference 😂

You hate the people who take care of other people?

@@justawhisperintheuniverse8257 lol who said that

@@drewg2676 Um... you?

@justawhisperintheuniverse8257 um.....can you read? Lol you're the only one that wrote the word "hate." clown.

@@9770G No, our broken, privatized healthcare system is why people can't afford basic healthcare.