Javier Said:

I'm going to call some doctor's offices to ask if they're hiring medical billers, if they say no what should I?

We Answered:

It might sound better if you ask if they are accepting resumes for medical billers. That says 1. I'm looking for work. 2. I have my resume ready to send to you right now.

If you can fax it to them in the next 5 minutes, it will show you are very prepared. Or make your calls in the morning and make sure you send the resumes out in that day's mail.

Leona Said:

Nurses in doctor's offices?

We Answered:

I will try to respond to your question and at the same time respond to the 2 previous answers, as they are not specifically correct.

1. Depending on the size of the practice a physician may have an RN on staff, or they may have an LPN, and at my last clinic we found both to be a waste of money as they only took messages and left prescriptions to be signed on our desks (due to the nature of our practice) so we only had medical assistants.
2. The pay for a medical office RN is normally slighly less than the average rate for RNs at the local hospitals. So if you go to Salary.com or CBsalary.com and input your area, look at the low end salary for an RN and it should be an approximate expectation for a medical office RN. This is because they normally work M-F days with no weekends or holidays and they do not get the differential, so their salary would be based on the base salary. Also medical offices do not have the profit margin hospitals normally have.
3. It would be difficult to get an office job directly out of school. Most offices, if they hire an RN, want someone who has developed some clinical judgement.
4. The jobs in physicians offices are not plentiful. Normally, unless it is a large group practice, there is one RN for a practice, and only one shift, and no additional nurses are needed to cover when the nurse is gone on weekends and holidays, and the office usually just tries to get by on the occasional sick day. So while there is a nursing shortage in hospitals,, it is normally easy to find an RN for an office job in a city.
5. Most office RNs enjoy the job, but it is becoming more difficult, as their job is becoming more often talking with insurance companies to get treatments, medications or payments authorized.
6. With a neck and back injury, you might have difficulty performing the tasks required of an RN during nursing school. There are less physical jobs for RNs but usually they are looking for experienced RNs so you would have a difficult time finding and competeing for positions. Nonclinical jobs are noramlly based on previously developed clinical judgement. An exception would be research, but those positions are scarce, and the experienced nurses are usually in line for them. As far as the surgical or perioperative nursing mentioned by one of the above responders, it normally requires standing for most of the eight hour day (tough with a neck and back injury).

I'm not trying to talk you out of nursing, but it may be difficult for you. I would discuss these options with the instructors/professors at your school for their advice, before starting school.