lflinton

I work in this setting as well and my experience is very similar. We have a lab next door as we are owned by a larger hospital. Only testing we do in our office are U/A, flu and strep but I wish we carried momospot, and hcg. If you have experience in family practice or ED then I think you wouldn't have any problem. The fast pace isn't for everyone. We usually see about 40 patients a day in 12 hours but they seem to come in small herds instead of a steady pace at a family practice. We may wait 45 minutes with no patients them in a matter of ten minutes have 5-6 in the waiting room and feel rushed. At least 50% are probably kids and then a good bit of fairly healthy people with minor illness. Procedures we do include suturing, I&Ds, foreign body removal from eyes, irrigate cerumen impacts on and things along those lines. I don't see myself leaving this job if I can help it!

I have been an NP for a few months shy of a year and I work at an Occupational Health Clinic but also has a walk-in/urgent care clinic side to it. Technically the businesses operate separately as far as nursing/support staff but the NPs/MDs work both sides since the building is connected and owned by the same parent company. So that being said, I love the Occupational Health side but I do not think I would be completely happy if I didn't get any diagnosing/prescribing by working the other side of the business. If this is your primary interest then by all means go for it, but if you want to work in a setting with more diagnosing I think it may be beneficial to use all this knowledge you just worked so hard for (to its full extent). I have been pretty surprised by the things I have gotten foggy on that I don't use frequently (like OB/GYN). I would definitely explore your options, but it's pretty easy work and I like the variety of both!

I am in the interview process as well with UHG to work per diem in addition to my FT job. I have had three interviews so far. One more to go tomorrow so we will see how it goes!

I work in a dual walk in clinic and occupational health clinic and we do what sounds like you are talking about. I do not own the company but the occupational health side makes tons of money on drug screens that are done by our MOAs or LPNs. Molts of pre employment physicals, school, DOT, and such. The key would be getting contracts with local companies and offering good self pay rates. There is plenty of competition in our small town for the physical part though for sure