I found out quickly that hospital nursing is not for me. I worked three years in a primary care clinic and now three years in an urgent care clinic. Urgent care is much more interesting to me. But now I've decided that I want to live in a different state and I've been looking for RN jobs in Urgent Care and...I don't see many job postings for this. Also, I've just been told that my clinic will be transitioning to a work flow where both LPNs and RNs will need to triage all walk in patients in consultation with a provider (previously only LPNs had to consult a provider when doing triage). LPNs can start IVs here, send prescriptions, autosign work release letters for providers, etc. It looks like there is nothing I can do as an RN here that an LPN cannot do for less money. These makes me wonder, are RNs being phased out at Urgent Care clinics and perhaps other ambulatory clinics as well? Do I need to go back to school and get a Family Nurse Practitioner license if I want to continue in this field? Thanks for any insight into this issue!
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I found out quickly that hospital nursing is not for me. I worked three years in a primary care clinic and now three years in an urgent care clinic. Urgent care is much more interesting to me. But now I've decided that I want to live in a different state and I've been looking for RN jobs in Urgent Care and...I don't see many job postings for this. Also, I've just been told that my clinic will be transitioning to a work flow where both LPNs and RNs will need to triage all walk in patients in consultation with a provider (previously only LPNs had to consult a provider when doing triage). LPNs can start IVs here, send prescriptions, autosign work release letters for providers, etc. It looks like there is nothing I can do as an RN here that an LPN cannot do for less money. These makes me wonder, are RNs being phased out at Urgent Care clinics and perhaps other ambulatory clinics as well? Do I need to go back to school and get a Family Nurse Practitioner license if I want to continue in this field? Thanks for any insight into this issue!