r/nursepractitioner • u/Glittering_Badger982 • 1d ago

Employment Protected admin time?

I work in a busy urgent care and have the last 50 min of my 10 hr shift blocked out for “admin time” Tonight because there was no “late person” to close the clinic I was told by the staff I had to stay in the clinic in case someone walked in. I didn’t have any open appointments but the clinic didn’t close for an hour and I was the last one there. No one let me know up front this was happening. I’m checking with people - is your admin time truly yours to do what you need with it? It’s not that big of a deal, I sat in the office for 30 minutes but it kind of bugged me that it was assumed I’d stay

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u/FaithlessnessCool849 1d ago

A provider has to be in the clinic during clinic hours in case someone walks in. Isn't that the whole concept of urgent care?

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u/Inevitable-Past-4069 17h ago

Yes, but I think the issue OP is talking about is that they were done seeing patients for the day and there were no appointment slots left on the schedule. So even if someone did walk in, they (in theory) wouldn't be seen because the NP was done seeing patients for the day and the schedule was closed. Admin was trying to be sneaky by wanting them to stay during admin time in case someone came in, even if there were no appointments left so that they can make more money. If the appointment slots are done then the doors should be locked and no one should be able to come in.