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| - Okay, we all know that NO ONE enjoys a visit to urgent care! And NO ONE enjoys camping in that lobby waiting for a pre-employment drug screen that seems to take hours just to pee in a cup & have it tested for a whopping 10 minutes of an actual visit! But, this is a necessary 'procedure'. And this is the 2nd time I have opted to visit this located over others! The first time was decent, so they earned me back for the next round a few years later (and it was for a NEW job, before anyone goes thinking I was in there for obligatory reasons more than once, LOL!!!)
If you arrive early, just after opening, your wait time is significantly less. And I loved the front desk staff- the gal that checked me in was very friendly & had a good sense of humor- a warm feeling in such a cold atmosphere. I have to say, while I was a little jealous of her bragging about the fresh banana bread a co-worker brought in to share... it clearly made her day & she was expanding that happiness towards the patients! Much more pleasant than a cold face throwing paperwork at you & barking your name to come retrieve your ID card.
It was kind of them to offer bottled water in lieu of the drinking fountain- especially when you are in there for a whiz-quiz! The wait was less than 1 hour, which was pretty decent, as there was at least 9 other patients in the waiting room aside from myself. But- there was a funky "smell". Maybe it was the trash can next to me? But I felt like I needed to go home & shower before showing up to a job site, afterwards.
The screening was simple. As usual. Most of us are accustomed to this process & know what to expect. It just aggravated me that the nurse who took me back had all my paperwork in hand, and then turned around and tried to blame ME that the fax number for results was not included on the paperwork that was provided to me. She literally told me, "you'll have to wait while I call to obtain the information YOU failed to provide." I found that to be pretty rude & entirely not my fault, when I obviously did not draw up the paperwork to drug screen myself because I am obviously not employing myself!
Also inconvenient when I came in knowing I had to pee, NEEDING to pee, just having drank an extra bottle of water provided from the lobby resulting in REALLY NEEDING to pee!!! It took an entire 3 minutes for her to call & ask for a fax number. If it was THAT much of an inconvenience, someone could have asked me to obtain it while I was sitting in the waiting room for 30+ minutes, since they already had all my documents/paperwork in their possession to process & review. But she could have left out her irritation, the nurse, because by the time 3 minutes or less passed with her getting a fax number, I had to pee SO badly I pretty much almost forgot the entire process that goes along with the screenings... *washes hands quickly while doing the 'jiggle dance' squeezing thighs together then waddling into bathroom to let it LOOSE & presenting the suddenly relieved face upon proudly handing over a cup that radiates your bladder saying- you have MORE than needed to test!*
So besides the nurse seeming to be short with me- it was still a pretty decent & relatively quick visit for what is necessary in the workforce world. Props to the enjoyable gal at the check-in desk who really made it start off in a pleasant manner for what we really don't enjoy having to participate in. But they do their best to get you in & out. And we know they don't like handling our bodily fluids or specimens to get paid just as much as we dislike having to sit through/go through the screening process to prove our own eligibility to be paid! Necessary evils we kind of have to work together on in order for both sides to walk away unscathed!
And, in this case, the nurse is lucky she obtained that fax number in a timely manner... otherwise my sample would not have survived it all the way to the pretty blue chemical toilet area! Part of me feels she could have just let me PEE & get through the initial test to obtain the fax number AFTER completing & upon submitting results... but I kind of figure she does this for a living, on the daily, and perhaps it adds some entertainment to her repetitive job in getting some sort of amusement watching patients nearly piss themselves?
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