Here's the dilemma. I was hired to work in a private practice specialty clinic owned by 2 physicians. They already had 2 NPs and needed one more. The clinic was initially ran split as far as patients and other staff went, for ex: one side was ran by physician A who employed his own receptionist, NP, and nurse, the other side was ran the same. A few months before I came the doctors combined the clinic and decided to share all staff and the patients would see whatever NP had an opening, they thought this would be more efficient. The problem is this clinic had run split for about 14 years. The 2 physicians do things quite differently and things have not meshed well. The staff is unhappy and a lot of the patients as well as they'd gotten used to seeing "their provider", which I can understand; this is a specialty clinic. One NP resigned because she could not deal with things being combined. The physicians now have decided to split things back out because they feel it worked better that way. I was told last week I needed to choose which physician I wanted to work for. Physican A's original NP whose been with him since the start of the clinic is still there. Physician B is the one whose NP resigned. I feel uncomfortable choosing because Physician A is the one who offered me the job but as it stands physician B has no NP. They both talked with me and said they would be okay with whoever I chose to work for, and that at this point they've decided the main thing is they don't lose another NP. They also said they still plan to hire a 3rd NP. I don't like the position of choosing after I've been there working with both for the past 4 months.
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Here's the dilemma. I was hired to work in a private practice specialty clinic owned by 2 physicians. They already had 2 NPs and needed one more. The clinic was initially ran split as far as patients and other staff went, for ex: one side was ran by physician A who employed his own receptionist, NP, and nurse, the other side was ran the same. A few months before I came the doctors combined the clinic and decided to share all staff and the patients would see whatever NP had an opening, they thought this would be more efficient. The problem is this clinic had run split for about 14 years. The 2 physicians do things quite differently and things have not meshed well. The staff is unhappy and a lot of the patients as well as they'd gotten used to seeing "their provider", which I can understand; this is a specialty clinic. One NP resigned because she could not deal with things being combined. The physicians now have decided to split things back out because they feel it worked better that way. I was told last week I needed to choose which physician I wanted to work for. Physican A's original NP whose been with him since the start of the clinic is still there. Physician B is the one whose NP resigned. I feel uncomfortable choosing because Physician A is the one who offered me the job but as it stands physician B has no NP. They both talked with me and said they would be okay with whoever I chose to work for, and that at this point they've decided the main thing is they don't lose another NP. They also said they still plan to hire a 3rd NP. I don't like the position of choosing after I've been there working with both for the past 4 months.