Stay Home or Go Back To Work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've only been an NP for a year. That will be problematic for you if you SAH then go back after some years. Pretty much any other applicant is going to be considered before you. Even a new grad, because they likely also have worked as an RN for some yrs and have all their academic and clinical training fresh in their brain. You will be left with a weak resume and no recent experience.

You will be much better off keeping your foot in the door in some way. Either work as an NP part time or if there is a university near you with a nursing program, consider teaching. Teaching one class or a skills lab will require little time but still keep your resume from looking quite so bleak.

OP did say she was working as a nurse through her NP program. That means she worked as a nurse for 2-3 years and she was an NP 1.5 years before getting pregnant. I think she should do part-time too. I don't think you can teach aa class unless you a doctorate of nursing.

But just about everyone that is an NP worked as an RN for some time. She will be competing with those same people and with little experience as an NP with no recent experience and several yrs out of school- doesn't look very good.

You only need a masters in nursing to teach part time as a clinical lab instructor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've only been an NP for a year. That will be problematic for you if you SAH then go back after some years. Pretty much any other applicant is going to be considered before you. Even a new grad, because they likely also have worked as an RN for some yrs and have all their academic and clinical training fresh in their brain. You will be left with a weak resume and no recent experience.

You will be much better off keeping your foot in the door in some way. Either work as an NP part time or if there is a university near you with a nursing program, consider teaching. Teaching one class or a skills lab will require little time but still keep your resume from looking quite so bleak.

OP did say she was working as a nurse through her NP program. That means she worked as a nurse for 2-3 years and she was an NP 1.5 years before getting pregnant. I think she should do part-time too. I don't think you can teach aa class unless you a doctorate of nursing.

I don’t think it was 1.5 years before pregnant. She worked 1.5 years working before she had the baby.

OP said she was trying to get pregnant for a while so she must have been trying to get pregnant while in NP school.

Sounds like she met her DH while she was a nurse and went to NP school after she got married and tried to get pregnant in NP school but it took longer than she anticipated.

OP here. You're pretty close. I met my husband at 35 right after finishing nursing school. I worked part-time as a nurse while I was in my NP program. I worked as an NP for 1.5 years up until I had my son. We started trying after I graduated and we got pregnant after 6 months of trying. I have decided to continue working part-time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just stay home. You used to be a nanny. You got a doctor husband now. Most nurses who married doctors don’t work anymore.

DH went to an Ivy League med school and residency. There were all these PA students who married residents or dated med students. Many of them never even worked at all. They just got married.

OP here. I would be throwing away what I worked the last 5 years to accomplish. Not to mention the amount of money I paid. Staying home might work for some, but I feel it's waste of a degree and money. I can see taking some time off, but just completely staying home is throwing my degrees away. Too many women stayed home and had to start from scratch after a divorce, job loss, or other things. I don't want to be in that position.

[Anonymous]

You have such a win/win choice. You have prepared all of your life for this special moment; to bring a child into the world and have the opportunity to use all that you have been and learned to nurture this child. Wow, how wonderful. After you take this joyful adventure you will be an even better nurse practitioner so you can go back to work then if you feel like you want to. But who knows you may have grands in your future and what a wonderful joy that would be. You would be so good at it. Your world looks so beautiful at the moment. You are a blessed woman. Enjoy the blessings. Your job will be filled by someone else who needs the opportunity but only you can be a mom to this child. This is a priceless opportunity. I am praying for you and your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked PT while my kids were little and loved it! The best (and worst) of both worlds. Don't be surprised by the worst - SAHMs look down at you for working, working moms look down at you because you only work PT... But it is all worth it!

SAHMs dont do this. If you need to tell yourself that for whatever reason, that is on you. I am a SAHM and most of my friends who Ive met from being a mom are working moms. It truly makes no difference to me when I meet someone if they work or not. Seems like you are looking too much into what SAHMs think.

[Anonymous]

Your answer is to work part time. I work 2 days a week and it's a good balance, I get to spend a lot of time with DC and I still have a career and my foot in the door.

It's not uncommon for nurses and doctors to work part time, my primary care physician only worked 2 days a week after she had children and eventually ramped up to more, I think she still work PT even though they are much older.
Don't make such a major decision based on what your boss wants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked PT while my kids were little and loved it! The best (and worst) of both worlds. Don't be surprised by the worst - SAHMs look down at you for working, working moms look down at you because you only work PT... But it is all worth it!

SAHMs dont do this. If you need to tell yourself that for whatever reason, that is on you. I am a SAHM and most of my friends who Ive met from being a mom are working moms. It truly makes no difference to me when I meet someone if they work or not. Seems like you are looking too much into what SAHMs think.

I have been a working mom, part time working mom and now a SAHM. We are all just trying to survive and do the best for our children.