Advice for New Grads Interested in Urgent Care with Michelle Lew, NP

Michelle Lew, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with experience in urgent care, shares her journey and insights into the field. She discusses the differences between urgent care and primary care, the challenges of not having access to medical records in urgent care, and the importance of collaboration between the two. Michelle Lew also provides advice for those interested in working in urgent care and recommends resources for further learning.

Takeaways

- Urgent care is a bridge between primary care and the emergency room, providing care for acute conditions that can't wait for a primary care appointment.
- There is a disconnect between urgent care and primary care, with urgent care often lacking access to patients' medical records.
- It is important for urgent care and primary care to have a better partnership to ensure continuity of care for patients.
- New grads interested in urgent care should work with another provider and have a ramp-up program to ensure success.
- Being able to determine if a patient is sick or stable is a crucial skill in urgent care.
- Resources for learning about urgent care include Hippo Education's Urgent Care Bootcamp, EKG resources by Jen at Cardiology Made Easy, and Michelle's own Instagram account for urgent care resources.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Urgent Care
09:38 Considerations for Working in Urgent Care
19:34 Improving Partnership between Urgent Care and Primary Care
23:46 Conditions and Procedures in Urgent Care
29:44 Advice for Those Interested in Urgent Care
36:18 Recommended Resources for Learning about Urgent Care
38:40 Introducing Children to the Role of Nurse Practitioners

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[reneewendym]

This was a really helpful conversation. It also sounds like a very well run urgent care!

[Bea-edoo]

Thank you for this video, l work for an ambulance service and do tele clinical assessment and at times find it quite hard to decide whether they need to go to ER or urgent treatment centre.