Ask an NP – First FNP Position Surprises

00:01 The thing that surprised me the most about my first FNP position was how much I could make people still want to see me even when I knew very little in the beginning, right? So when you're first starting, you are just so fresh and you don't have a ton of that knowledge.

00:16 But people would want to come back because they were like, Oh, you listened to me.

00:18 And I learned really early on that, even if I wasn't sure, I could look up the information, right? I could give them the care that they eventually needed, but I thought no one's going to want to see me.

00:27 Like, I'm just going to sit there and they're going to know I'm new.

00:30 But I listened and that ended up being one of the biggest keys to success.

00:34 And I think my whole nurse practitioner career is just that if you listen, people are going to want to come back to you because at the end of the day, they really just want someone to who's going to help them with their health care, who listens and respects what they have to say, and will act on it.