Why Become a Psych NP If You Don't

Why become a psych NP if you don't care about patients? I've met people interested in becoming psych NPs who don't seem interested in caring for people with mental health needs. It makes me wonder why they chose this field. Stories like this raise a hard question: are some people seeing vulnerable patients as a way to get rich quickly? I became a psych NP to care for people. I work hard and treat my patients with integrity, and that's why I can sleep well at night. Patients deserve providers who take that responsibility seriously, and anyone committing fraud should be held accountable. I saw the news of the Nigerian healthcare worker that will be going to jail for some fraud and I want to say that this is not a Nigerian isolated case. They have over 90 licensed healthcare workers and 455 defendants in this case. It's called the National Health Care Fraud Takedown. You can go research on it. It's an open document and they have the names of everybody involved. In fact, this non-practitioner bought a $994,000 Ferrari and a $4.8 million booth in the Philippines while allegedly running a $986 million fraud scheme that targeted elderly, inclusive patients for unneeded procedures. She billed almost a billion dollars. So much so that she got a resort in the Philippines. There is so much fraud going on in healthcare that please don't make this a Nigerian thing. Always remember that the quickest way to federal prison is private practice. This is not to say all private practice is fraudulent. If you have your own practice, be diligent with no room for greed. A lot of non-practitioners are in that list. A lot of psych non-practitioners that are fronting on social media, how they're making a million dollars a year. They are all on the list. You can go look it up. National Health Care Fraud Takedown. Go look it up. And don't do fraud, okay?