FNP23

Thank you so much for your advise I greatly appreciate it. You hit the nail on the head about the doctor, he spent about 30 minutes talking to me about how much money is in retail clinics which prompted him to open one. As far as my experience I have only worked in long term care facilities and in mental health as an RN so I don't have any urgent care/ER experience aside from my NP clinical rotation. If most of the cases coming through are simple complaints as you mentioned I should be okay with that. There are just certain patient populations such as peds where I would not feel as comfortable treating without another provider on site. Thank you again!

I wanted to get some opinions from others NPs who work in an urgent care/retail type clinic. I am a new grad FNP that is considering starting with an immediate care clinic. I am not sure what the patient population will look like since this will be a brand new clinic that will open in the next two months. According to the physician I will be working completely alone aside from the front office staff. I did mention to him that I would like a shadowing experience before hand since i am a new grad however, he reassured me that I would be fine and that he or his partner would only be a phone call away. This would be a great opportunity for me, but to be completely honest I am terrified. I don't want to feel like I bit off more than I can chew.” Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.