What are advantages of working as a nurse in a clinic?

Clinics are are sometimes called 'band-aid clinics' and try to patch up the patient as best they can and then ask you if you have a doctor and if so see your doctor or come back to the clinic in so many days (only in grave circumstances do they have an ambulance take a patient to a hospital) and clinics (at least in British Columbia) are also considered 'stabilizing units' which means they stabilize the patients that are perhaps having a heart attack or something more serious so they can be moved to a hospital with the proper equipment. This is a good learning ground for young doctors and nurses and one has to be quick on their feet. There are generally more people coming into a clinic than at many hospitals. There will be anything from babies with raging fevers to stab wounds and some patients on drugs and not so nice, so be prepared. If I wanted to be a nurse I would like to work at a clinic to get into the 'thick of things' and learn quickly and at a fast pace in an emergency situation. It can be exhausting for doctors and nurses as well as dangerous. There are gang related stabbings, gun shot wounds, as well as people who have over-dosed on drugs and would love nothing to kick or bite you. There are also some patients so strung out on drugs that they have to be subdued quickly or the police is called in to help calm the patient down. Doctors and nurses also have to be careful they don't get stuck by a 'users' needle, bitten or spit at (re AIDS, etc.)