-: I love the flexibility with it,
but also that this one's more critical thinking,
I have much more autonomy, I get to work
as a nurse practitioner, underneath the doctors of course,
but I have more of a say in a patient's care
and can asses more thoroughly than just
when I worked inpatient, then I had protocols
and I worked as a machine.
You know, this is happening, you know you have
to do this, instead of thinking about it
and processing it.
Well the hardest part of it is basically the job,
trying to assess over the phone,
since I do have a desk job, you can't see the patient
or what they look like, what they're complaining about,
you just take their word for it.
And then because of that, like I said,
you have to know which questions to ask
and where to look to get the whole picture.
Part of my job with critical thinking is,
a patient might call with a certain symptom,
but they aren't thinking about the other symptoms
that go with it, and a lot of those symptoms
can overlap, so having more of a algorithm
that you can work through in your head
is what is needed.