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So, I've been at my practice a good 18 months and seem to be doing fine -- no comments or complaints from my boss or from patients out of the ordinary. A new doctor straight out of medical school started about six months later. She's good, but also ...

I actually do not have student loans to re-pay, but that whole premise is just ridiculous anyway. If I've earned the trust and repeat visits of my patients, then deserve to keep them. It's all just very odd - the practice is odd in many ways, but I t...

So, the doctor that owns our practice and has been there for 30 years, and is essentially "my boss" has a hard and fast rule for all staff that all issues regarding the practice must be addressed first with the practice manager and not directly with ...

Thanks for the responses. In regard to wanting my hand held .... I'm not sure that's entirely fair. As a person who has always worked in past corporate PR and also large hospital system eonvirnments, I am used to professional annual evaluations. I'm ...

Practice manager has her two grandkids come in to be seen, accompanied by their grandmother (who has authority to bring them in). Practice manager's son is the father, and he is divorced from the mother of the two girls. One is 13, one is 11. Kids ...

Have been working in a small mom and pop practice for about a year now -- no EMR -- all on paper. Doc is old school. Very busy and well loved practice with a large patient volume. I started there a year ago, with a few years of retail health experien...

It's 2018 and I'm still reading your post. You have no idea how much this has helped me to hang on through a board complaint made against me by a former employer. I was also recently reprimanded and the entire experience was so hideously painful I ca...

Any good and relatively inexpensive courses anyone could recommend? Or conferences? I've put this off and have until next July to get it done ....will pay more if it's worth it.

Just started in a primary care office in Maryland. Often, patients under 18 are coming in without parents, and without any sort of parental consent form on the charts. Coming from the Minute Clinic environment, I always thought kids had to be accomp...

Right -- I think that over time, as an NP you will catch up simply due to experience in practice, but it's very tough at first.

I don't know -- everyday I wonder if I should just hang it up ...I'm just four years into it, spent 3 in retail, and now during my first year in true primary care, I get easily overwhelmed and am often in a state of panic and/or sheer terror. However...

Oh gosh -- I'm relatively new in the field, but still have not really seen one who seemed to have the ability to effectively really manage, and who just did not seem untrustworthy and smarmy. The one I have now does a lot to make my job easy, but als...

I will honestly say, I strongly feel not all that much. I did 700 clinic hours, whereas my doc went to med school for 3 years, then did 3 years of solid residency ....that's what you NEED. I wish that's what I could have done. Now I'm out and expecte...

Been working in primary care office for a while now and enjoying it -- for the most part. What's tough for me at times is working in close proximity with nurses with very foul mouths, loud voices, and just having to listen to the nasty talk, gossip a...

Oh I know .... I absolutely cannot and will not say much if anything at this point ... just trying to formulate a coping strategy for now.

Yep -- grates on me even more as I have to stand in a tiny room right right next to me While I chart .... í ½í¹„

Hello: Wanted to post this, as a way to share my story, and help another practitioner avoid what I've gone through over the past few months. Many of you out there are probably too smart to land where I did, but then again, many out there who are new...

It is 100 percent true -- follow the guidelines to the letter and you're fine -- problem is, patients sometimes want the same type of care they receive at their PCP -- I would explain to them that you are NOT their PCP, and you have to follow the gui...

Well, yes -- and I may add -- the board doesn't exist to protect nurses .... it exists to protect the general public! (From nurses and other healthcare professionals, and while some errors are more administrative, some are absolutely endangering and/...

I'm sorry -- can't share beyond what I already have. Having worked now, however, in a more traditional primary care office, I can say that the same situation definitely would not have likely even occurred. I do believe the risks in retail are very s...

Thanks so much- it got me out of a bad job, that is for sure. I did get hired by a new employer and am doing fine!

Very kind of you to say! I would never make the same mistake again, that I can tell you!

Very rough, isn't it? I can't even explain it .... it's just a total threat and assault on your personal self image, your professional and personal identity ..... a threat to your overall livelihood. If you have actually harmed a patient intentionall...

Well, without sharing any personal details, I was notified of the report a full two months after the incident. This was shocking to me as Inthought perhaps they had just tossed it, but the wheels of the boards turn slowly. Once you are contacted by t...

Thank you -- that's incredibly nice of you to say. I really am grateful for the non-condemning attitudes here -- I wasn't sure what would happen if I shared what I could, but it's been so painful I just can't stand the thought of anyone else going th...