What are job conditions like for NPs?
The conditions on the job vary based on the type of specialty that the NP practices in. With the exception of Acute Care NP and Neonatal NP, which are usually hospital-based practices, and which may require rotating shifts to provide coverage in the hospital during days, evenings and nights, or which may require being on-call to go into the hospital, the majority of NP positions are ambulatory care positions, where the NP works in an outpatient setting seeing their patients. The settings however, can be quite varied, and may include doing house calls in rural areas to a standard pediatric or family practice office, such as most of us are familiar with.
