Is This Normal Yet? What the First 2 Years Should Actually Look Like

You are 8 months into your first NP job. You still stay late most days, and you still feel slower than the NP down the hall.

Two different things can make your first years this hard. You are learning a new profession, which takes time. You may also be in a job that has no room for all the work. No amount of learning fixes that. From the inside, the two feel the same, and they need different responses.

A learning curve gets easier as you learn. A badly built job does not.