Nurse Practitioner
Originally posted on Reddit by u/grapejewz Clinical pharmacist here. Was reviewing a patient’s chart this week and saw that the patient was recently diagnosed with AFib. Patient is on HD. Of fucking course a CRNP was “managing” the patient. I got an order for Eliquis 5 mg PO
Nurse Practitioner
Originally posted on Reddit by u/TheCrankyRunner Alright, ladies and gentlemen. Gather around because it's story time. It's a tale of unbelievable incompetence, and not only incompetence, but supreme, nauseating arrogance on top of it. I'm a clinical manager and wound care nurse for
Nurse Practitioner
Who would have known that medicine can't be learned by writing useless papers?
Social Media Consults
When lying in the ICU with a big, fat, pulmonary embolism (or any other life-threatening and potentially hemodynamically unstable medical condition), presumably you would want the individual with the highest level of medical knowledge and training caring for you, e.g. a board-certified physician with additional subspecialty fellowship training in
Social Media Consults
Every time we come across a midlevel social media consult, we sacrifice several brain cells, and this post in the "Nurse Practitioner Newbies" Facebook group is no exception. "What is prescribed for 20 y.o. pregnant woman asymptomatic UTI?" The complete lack of proper English grammar
Nurse Practitioner
"Completely out of touch with reality" is a phrase that could be accurately applied to many midlevels, but Indiana nurse practitioner Alexis Yoo takes it to a whole new level not only with her questionable motives for wanting to obtain an MD, but with her obtuse questions about
Nurse Practitioner
Florida Man, meet Florida NP.
Who would have thought that physicians make fewer mistakes than midlevels?
Nurse Practitioner
There's nothing elite about this nurse practitioner's procedural credentials.
Physician Assistant
The amount of compassion this PA has for underserved patients is now equal to the value of her professional reputation: zero.
Stories
Clearly, the first-line treatment for vulvar cancer is antibiotics.
News
Narrator: She didn't have a medical degree.