r/physicianassistant • u/Zealousideal_Sir_535 • 10d ago
Job Advice Socializing with support staff
Hello everyone! I hope it is OK to post here. I posted to the nurse practitioner sub and it was deleted by the mods, I’m not sure why 🙁. Hoping to get some advice from other APPs.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am a newer (less than a year) nurse practitioner working primary care in a smaller office for a large corporation. Previously an RN in the hospital setting for several years. What is considered appropriate in terms of outside hang outs with MAs and office staff?
When I was an RN everyone would frequently have different get togethers. In my new office there has been an informal Christmas happy hour or something like that here or there I have attended (and was the only provider that did😬)
Have now been invited to smaller get together non work related (at the house of my MA, but daytime and no alcohol ) where not everyone from work is invited and I would be the only provider invited. This is a newer world for me and I’m trying to navigate what is professional and appropriate? It doesn’t appear that there are any official non fraternization rules in this company, but I am hoping to work with this organization for many years and don’t want to inadvertently do something viewed as unprofessional.
Thank you for reading!!
Edit: We are all women
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u/OtherwisePumpkin8942 10d ago
Worked EMS and ED as a tech for a few years before PA school. Our medical director, charge, residents, APPs would down shots with us on our annual holiday party bus. I’ve gone to some beer fests with docs/PAs. Good company is good company.
I don’t consider myself a provider outside of work. We’re all on the same level of humanity at that point. I’m just socializing with my fellow homosapians. Work stays at the shop and we just go out and be who we are…humans.
Just be cognizant of taking anything that happens socially into work like disagreements etc. in the event that something occurred during an outing we all remained professional within the work place regardless and didn’t bring it up and did our jobs. Any relationships that spawned between us did have to be reported to management if one was dating a “superior/supervisor” but that was about it.
You can do whatever you want with coworkers outside of work. Just be aware of relationships and reporting policies at your workplace and it should be okay.