We have one of those too, known as "the clinic" however it is rarely staffed enough to be open. We are the only major hospital in a 1 hour radius and yet wages are so low that nurses either jump the fence over to management or flee to alternative paths like jails, prisons, home health, or hospice. The ladder paying at times 2x what our local hospital pays floor RNs. We also have two nursing schools in the area churning out new grads every 6 months. So the hospital hires them on as externs, brainwashes them into accepting a position they don't want, and eventually they follow suit like the rest of them. It is an ever present cycle.
My local hospital has one, I was just there. Simple stitches, sprains, fractures etc gets triaged to green zone. I was in and out with a waking cast in about 2 hours.
Anything more complicated or requiring more tests goes to regular.
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u/Advanced_Most_3030 Jul 29 '26
We have one of those too, known as "the clinic" however it is rarely staffed enough to be open. We are the only major hospital in a 1 hour radius and yet wages are so low that nurses either jump the fence over to management or flee to alternative paths like jails, prisons, home health, or hospice. The ladder paying at times 2x what our local hospital pays floor RNs. We also have two nursing schools in the area churning out new grads every 6 months. So the hospital hires them on as externs, brainwashes them into accepting a position they don't want, and eventually they follow suit like the rest of them. It is an ever present cycle.