Any LVN's in Urgent Care?

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Specializes in Wound Care.

Would really like the know more information about LVN's in urgent care. I would love to get my foot in at a hospital er but I know they don't hire LVN's in the Er...well at least in So Cal from what I have been told.

Can anyone who's in LVN in urgent care give me an idea of what it's like?

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This is something I would love to know as well.

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Urgent Care can be fast-paced, busy, and interesting. I've been working UC for a couple years and wouldn't change for anything. The hospital I work for hires LPNs almost exclusively to staff the centers. If you can think on your feet, react quickly, are confident about your skills, can do IVs, catheters, drawing blood, can assist the physician, then by all means, try it.

On any given day, we can see a variety of stuff like lacerations, abscesses, partial/complete amputations, cardiac problems, broken bones, urinary retention, UTIs, URIs, SOBs, and other non-emergent cases. We also get loads of boring stuff like coughs, allergic rhinitis, migraines, drug seekers, people who need work notes, worker's comp cases, dental pain, sore throat, etc.

Lots of people don't have a PCP and wind up in UC for regular care.

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Specializes in Wound Care.

AWESOME!!! This actually sounds right up my alley. Any idea what I should to do prep so i can look good on paper applying?

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