I am starting a prn ER position working for an ER physician company, not the hospital itself. Just received this 6 page contract which I went over with a lawyer. He had some (what I think) are legitimate concerns and I will be deleting a lot of stuff before I sign.
However, my full-time job, I have no contract whatsoever...just get a yearly evaluation and that's it.
So...my question is....how many of you have a contract and have you had any problems???
I've had contracts with 2 employers, but not with the Urgent Care job. I've always been an independent contractor, so my contracts were to the point...we'll pay you X amount per hour or per patient and you pay your own taxes...period. I've worked in UC for almost 3 years and I've never had a written contract...I've had 2 verbal raises and they showed up on my paycheck, so I haven't complained. I just signed a contract for a job in the ER and it is AWESOME! I'm getting all kinds of benefits that I didn't even know existed!
I think it's great that people are negotiating for their name on the door and a "seat" at the table. My 1 year contract with a big family practice group expires this week and I'm not planning on coming back. The practice is owned by 4 male doctors and you can sorta tell that the NP's are looked upon as part of the nursing staff. I almost fell over when my name showed up on a list of people who are supposed to clean the break room - HA HA! Of course, the doctors and the manager's name wasn't on the list. I thought that was demeaning and sexist.
Yep, can you believe it?? It looks like my credentialing will be finished this week for the ER job, so I'm going to put in my notice with the family practice group. I want to say something about the whole "cleaning the breakroom" bit...just to make it easier for the next midlevel who comes along. Any suggestions on how I can word that??
you can sorta tell that the NP's are looked upon as part of the nursing staff. .
I found this comment interesting. If the practice you worked for truly respected their NURSING staff, NP or no, being looked upon as part of the nursing staff wouldn't be a bad thing, would it? Sounds like they aren't treating nurses as a whole what they are worth. Nurses shouldn't be cleaning the breakroom either. That is why we have housekeeping.
Even if NP's are respected as part of the medical staff, but RN's and LPN's are not respected, that is not a victory for nursing. I guess we have to be careful not to add ourselves to the pathology of hierarchy in healthcare.
I found this comment interesting. If the practice you worked for truly respected their NURSING staff, NP or no, being looked upon as part of the nursing staff wouldn't be a bad thing, would it? Sounds like they aren't treating nurses as a whole what they are worth. Nurses shouldn't be cleaning the breakroom either. That is why we have housekeeping.
Even if NP's are respected as part of the medical staff, but RN's and LPN's are not respected, that is not a victory for nursing. I guess we have to be careful not to add ourselves to the pathology of hierarchy in healthcare.
Good thing you are getting out!
I was wrong to say anything about the nursing staff, because the people working there are NOT nurses, but medical assistants. So, basically the NP's/PA's are equated with the medical assistants, yet we're diagnosing and treating patients and billing at the doctor rate!
Something similar in my job that i just left. Since there was basically nothing to do for most of the day a lot of the NPs would make charts, like put all the different papers together that go in the chart, and/or put patient labels on charts.. ie. not even nursing duties but secretary duties.. AND the boss just hired 2 more NPs to lounge around with us. AND at the one and only team meeting we had, we were told from the Boss to "look busy" because if not when the next person (me haha) leaves, she won't be able to replace them. She also told us the dept. was like 7 million in debt...????? I just didn't understand it. But you know what.. I didn't make charts, that's not what i went to school to do, and there is NO WAY they could give me a bad review for refusing to do that...
It seems really odd that companies, uppers are wanting us to do...
They want to pay you $$$ to clean the break room??? On the one hand easy money, but on the other hand.. NOT in the job description!!
Something similar in my job that i just left. Since there was basically nothing to do for most of the day a lot of the NPs would make charts, like put all the different papers together that go in the chart, and/or put patient labels on charts.. ie. not even nursing duties but secretary duties.. AND the boss just hired 2 more NPs to lounge around with us. AND at the one and only team meeting we had, we were told from the Boss to "look busy" because if not when the next person (me haha) leaves, she won't be able to replace them. She also told us the dept. was like 7 million in debt...????? I just didn't understand it. But you know what.. I didn't make charts, that's not what i went to school to do, and there is NO WAY they could give me a bad review for refusing to do that...
It seems really odd that companies, uppers are wanting us to do...
They want to pay you $$$ to clean the break room??? On the one hand easy money, but on the other hand.. NOT in the job description!!
What gets me is that people don't stand up for themselves. The PA is the one who pointed out that our names were on the cleaning schedule and she agreed with me that it was ridiculous. She didn't say a word AND she actually cleaned the breakroom! Of course, I'm going to say something about it in my resignation letter. Even if I wasn't leaving, I would have said something to one of the docs about it. I guarantee you the docs don't even know our names are on that list, since the office manager is the one who typed it up (her name isn't on the list). What's really amazing is that the office manager just finished an online Bachelor's degree 3 months ago and she actually thinks that she is "above" the midlevels. Every place I've worked before, the docs were at the top, then the midlevels, then the office manager and on down.
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I've had contracts with 2 employers, but not with the Urgent Care job. I've always been an independent contractor, so my contracts were to the point...we'll pay you X amount per hour or per patient and you pay your own taxes...period. I've worked in UC for almost 3 years and I've never had a written contract...I've had 2 verbal raises and they showed up on my paycheck, so I haven't complained. I just signed a contract for a job in the ER and it is AWESOME! I'm getting all kinds of benefits that I didn't even know existed!
I think it's great that people are negotiating for their name on the door and a "seat" at the table. My 1 year contract with a big family practice group expires this week and I'm not planning on coming back. The practice is owned by 4 male doctors and you can sorta tell that the NP's are looked upon as part of the nursing staff. I almost fell over when my name showed up on a list of people who are supposed to clean the break room - HA HA! Of course, the doctors and the manager's name wasn't on the list. I thought that was demeaning and sexist.