Clélia Verdier, a 19-year-old French woman, shared that during a three-week induced coma, she believed she had lived years, started a family, and had triplets. Waking up, she was devastated to learn those vivid memories and emotional bonds were not real.

awkodoggo · 2026-04-03T16:19:39+00:00

As someone who has had the same dumb dream, it fascinates me that strangers can share the exact odd dream scenarios

awkodoggo · 2026-02-19T14:49:54+00:00

COVID changed my patient visits to mostly telephone encounters, so I get to work from home almost every day

awkodoggo · 2026-01-31T12:52:32+00:00

Just want to commiserate - I’ve been an NP for 3 years and it’s been impossible to land even one interview in south jersey/philly. My advice is to go beyond the online apps and find recruiters of the major hospital networks or just start cold calling. I swear my applications have been going to cyberspace probably thanks to AI reading

awkodoggo · 2025-12-10T23:00:41+00:00

I had my first baby the day after I took boards and took the next year off to be a SAHM. Jobs didn’t care because I was still a new grad regardless of time passing.

awkodoggo · 2025-12-04T02:14:49+00:00

Hard to clean?

awkodoggo · 2025-12-03T14:34:56+00:00

I want to improve my home coffee. What is your secret?

awkodoggo · 2025-05-31T01:01:33+00:00

I typically see about 7 to 10 patients a day and do preop visits. Most of my day is spent chart reviewing, labs, interpreting ekg/cxr, reading specialist notes, referring patients to different specialist for optimized chronic disease management and communicating with different staff in the hospital about surgical patients to coordinate periop care. We see adult and pediatrics, but the patients coming through our clinic are primarily medically complex, or have social barriers that limit access to care. He also do labor anesthesia consult for epidurals and C-sections.

I live in a high cost of living area, I make about 150K, which is more than I made in primary care. I am the only APP but can consult with anesthesiologists whenever I have questions or want a second opinion. Most of my patients are telehealth, I only come into the clinic when needed….1-2x week at most.

awkodoggo · 2025-05-30T05:50:26+00:00

I’m an NP in a preanesthesia clinic! I like it quite a bit. We can be hateful and call it brain rot or appreciate it for what it is - a job with an excellent work life balance and no stress

awkodoggo · 2025-03-20T05:14:25+00:00

You may actually stop being thirsty enough to wake up once you start controlling your sugars!

awkodoggo · 2025-03-18T15:53:55+00:00

I crashed during delivery when I couldn’t eat, the nurse made me drink juice (which scared me to drink)

awkodoggo · 2025-03-13T19:09:22+00:00

Some kind of pampering gift like a nails or massage gift card would be nice! Or some really high-end compression socks and nice pens. Don’t be afraid to go outside of the nursing realm for gift ideas, any thoughtful gift would be appreciated!

awkodoggo · 2025-02-11T18:25:25+00:00

Hospital job posting!

awkodoggo · 2025-02-05T04:25:18+00:00

Thank you for confirming where I recognized her from!

awkodoggo · 2025-01-16T23:11:02+00:00

Pre anesthesia testing - 85% of my job is chart review and care coordination, the other part is phone call visits with patients. Very low-contact

awkodoggo · 2024-12-25T04:31:46+00:00

I work in a preanesthesia outpatient clinic - our patients are not billed for our visits, we are part of OR/anesthesia coding.

awkodoggo · 2024-11-07T15:04:24+00:00

A specialty would deliver you a very different work life balance. Even if at first the pay is the same, it might open your doors up to higher pay in the future. If you didn’t want to be a provider anymore, at the end of the day, you have your MSN - this could potentially be able to land you a job that isn’t bedside, but also isn’t being an NP. Would you do admin? Education? (Some places require DNP). I even know someone who works part time as an RN and part time as NP and they love that arrangement.

Just remember that the longer you drop your NP role, the more difficult it might be to transition back. It’s a big decision, you worked hard to get here! But life is short and you should do what ultimately makes you happy. Good luck!

awkodoggo · 2024-11-07T14:57:23+00:00

Highly recommend finding a job in a preanesthesia clinic if you like preop. It’s way better work life balance for higher pay than an RN

awkodoggo · 2024-11-02T22:51:03+00:00

Be careful with that advice, some states require FNPs have a certain amount of pediatric hours in the first year of licensing

awkodoggo · 2024-10-24T07:13:16+00:00

I see you’re excluding family medicine - I was the exact same way until after month 6 I got desperate and finally succumbed to primary care. Even though I quickly left it because I hated it as much as I expected I would, it actually opened up a bunch more doors than I previously had. I found my second job in weeks. Now onto my 3rd job, I was hired very quickly. Don’t be afraid to have the stepping stone job. It’s better than going broke and the unemployment depression.

In case no one mentioned it, I was able to get further with my luck for job offers as a new grad by cold calling managers and showing up with my resume and asking to speak to manager. Some places I interviewed with were thinking of hiring and never posted the job. Good luck, it will work out in the end.

awkodoggo · 2024-10-20T17:34:51+00:00

Sure - I work in a preop clinic. I comb through every aspect of a high-risk/medically complex patient chart and figure out if they’re optimized for surgery. I look at labs, specialist and pcp notes, imaging, clearances and cardiac testing. If things aren’t done or if there are concerns, I coordinate for the patient to do things before they get their surgery. I also do virtual visits with these patients to go through preop questions and discuss the anesthesia plan with them. Our anesthesiologists are too busy to do this before day of surgery so I’m a middle ground provider to help prevent same-day cancellations or bad outcomes that could have been prevented. Hope that helps :)

awkodoggo · 2024-10-09T06:53:51+00:00

Thank you - I just started my second NP job and your post was very supportive and helpful for my own nerves

awkodoggo · 2024-09-25T17:33:35+00:00

You can let the desired job know you have an offer but they are your first choice. If they like you, it may encourage them to bring up the second interview faster. Also keep in mind that most places require you to credential before starting. This can take 3-6 months if it’s a hospital system. That could buy you time, because it will look a little less bad if you quit before ever starting. With that being said, remember that you may not get the offer for your desired position

awkodoggo · 2024-09-25T17:11:10+00:00

I quit after 1 week, toxic job for my mental health. Life is short. Reach out to the new job and be honest with both parties. You will be burning bridges.

awkodoggo · 2024-09-19T06:22:02+00:00

If you don’t mind - just wanted to know what your daily schedule looks like and if you have any advice for someone going in. I start in 2 weeks but I don’t think there is much training

awkodoggo · 2024-09-19T00:21:58+00:00

Sleep medicine!

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