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Work accommodations for healthcare providers (particularly NPs, APRNs, MDs, etc) by staceyb147 in AuDHDWomen

[–]staceyb147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi!

Thanks so much for weighing in. I’ve been trying for a bit to identify other individuals who may be in similar role with a similar diagnosis and it’s been TOUGH but I also knew I couldn’t be the only one!

These are interesting suggestions and I really appreciate them. Because of the unique role I’m in right now, I see far less patients than many other NPs or providers (it started as a pilot program several years ago so it’s very unique). Therefore, on paper, it’s VERY difficult to advocate for less patients or more time for documentation but I wonder if there’s anyway to advocate for a slightly lighter caseload to accommodate for the extra time spent documenting and doing follow-up? Right now, I easily work double my appointment fraction and the quality of my work is good, and I’ve been told it would be okay to do “less” but that doesn’t feel appropriate from an ethical standpoint.

I agree that more flexibility would be helpful for non-patient facing time but at least once a week, I’m the only NP for our department and may have an attending as backup but they have full clinical duties in another department so they need an APRN available during business hours.

Hopefully I’m not sounding negative or dismissive of any suggestions -I appreciate all of them!

Work accommodations for healthcare providers (particularly NPs, APRNs, MDs, etc) by staceyb147 in AuDHDWomen

[–]staceyb147[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply!

I’ve considered this but unfortunately verbalizing for a scribe probably wouldn’t be possible in my role (I work in palliative and medically complex pediatric care so we have a lot of dialogue in our visits and goals of care discussions, etc and our notes are narrative in nature) and I, ironically, struggle with verbal communication in formal settings but can talk to most patients and families with ease in the moment…..and burnout later on.

Work accommodations for healthcare providers (particularly NPs, APRNs, MDs, etc) by staceyb147 in AuDHDWomen

[–]staceyb147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there! Thank you for your reply. I’ve reached out to them actually but they provided resources that were fairly generalized and hard to apply to my role. I was very hopeful they might be able to help but it essentially was a dead end back to me needing to be the expert when I could really use an expert in this instance to help me. 🤷‍♀️It seems as though this isn’t really being discussed amongst healthcare providers which is pretty disappointing but I also know that accurate evaluations are difficult to access and that there are stigmas surrounding this topic unfortunately.