Retail Clinic salaries

[aggie313]

I was wondering what the avg salary is for FNPs in retail clinics such as minute clinic and take care health clinics. And what about per diem shifts? I'm seriously considering working in such a setting a few years after getting some experience.

[Melody007_FNP-C, APRN]

There is nothing wrong with choosing a job whose location and hours works best for your family. Personally I don't need an amazing job in the CVICU or at a high volume clinic where I am forced to see 38 patients per day.

I would also highly encourage you in your job search to take a few days every week to get dressed up, print off some resumes and drop by the smaller, privately owned physician offices. Sell yourself as someone who has a great set of skills, is eager to be with a smaller practice and always eager to learn. You might very well be surprised that there is a doc who was thinking he might be interested in a part-time NP but he is so overwhelmed running his practice that he/she hasn't had the time to make a want or whatever.

I agree! I just started, my second job as a NP with a Gastroenterologist. He was not advertising but thinking about adding an ARNP to help as he was overwhelmed. I actually got the job because I sent my husband to him for an EGD and colonoscopy (I knew the Doctor from the hospital I worked at last) because he is kind and trustworthy. My husband actually told him I was an ARNP at his first appt. he bacially interviewed me at the conclusion of each of my husband's procedure's (they were two weeks apart) and now I am been working for him for two months! I would rather work for a private smaller practice than a big group corporation anyday!

[bnw6385]

Treating a patient outside of a protocol is not practicing medicine without a license. That is a ridiculous statement. It may get you fired there or make you carry more liability, but we diagnose and prescribe by trade.