Thanks,
I specialized in family medicine. Where I am at in Mississippi the need for family coverage is greatest. Figured I should take my 15 years of nursing to a new level. I have worked emergency medicine for all those years but it's a young man's game. Wanted a new direction and experience.
CONGRATS! I remember when I finished FNP school, for the first couple of months after graduation I kinda felt like "wait, what? I have free time? But I don't know what that is. What do I do?" LOL
Are you going to board through the Academy or ANCC? I've done both, Academy for initial then ANCC a few years back to recert by test instead of hours.
Academy exam is enough to make a grown man cry (at least it was back in 1998). It got to the point where I was thinking "OKAY, now you're just making stuff up!" I was shocked that I even passed, let alone did well. I give UAB all the credit, their entire program was extremely difficult, so I guess that prepared me more than I thought.
ANCC was so easy and so non focused on clinical that it made me angry I had wasted my time- lots of policy questions and ridiculous common sense questions.
In the beginning it was difficult to make the switch from critical care/ER to family practice, lots of "reigning it back"
but after a few months, no prob.
Good luck on boards and congrats again on graduation!