News
The casualties of cost-cutting: rookie CRNA midlevel in charge of colonoscopy case that went horribly wrong
Beaumont Health and NorthStar (DeathStar?) Anesthesia clearly have their priorities straight.
Midlevel.WTF
"The best NP preceptor is one you can find"
NPs recommend to just get clinical hours; quality education doesnโt seem to matter. ๐ข #NurseTwitter #MedTwitter #NPsLead pic.twitter.com/r3WhwrCiSK โ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐. ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ก๐ (@RayneKThomanRN) January 28, 2021 This marvelous Facebook post along with its comment section pretty much sums up everything wrong with NP (and DNP) education today, doesn't it?
News
AAFP objects to VA's interim rule permitting midlevels to practice unsupervised
AAFP Sees Harms to Team-based Care in VA Interim Final RuleThe AAFP and other medical societies this month urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to rescind an interim final rule that would decrease the standard of care for U.S. veterans. https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/
Noctor
"Dr." Monica Roundtree
Another example of a NP "noctor", this time in Florida, taking full advantage of the state's recently-passed "full practice authority" statue. Just because you have a DNP doesn't mean that you can present yourself as a doctor to patients, a term that
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Online, quick and reasonable fee: the "Doctorate" of Nursing Practice
Online, quick, and resonable (sic) fee? Why not get all three and do a DNP? This post pretty much sums up the "Doctorate of Nursing Practice" degree's fluff and lack of rigor in a nutshell. If you think a one-year program is comprehensive or rigorous enough
Noctor
"Dr." Cynthia McNeill, Ph.D., MBA, FNP-C
Website Here we have another example of a midlevel nurse practitioner being blatantly misrepresented as a doctor in a clinical context. Cynthia McNeill's "doctorate" in "Human Services" comes from Capella University, another fine and reputable for-profit institution known for its rigorous online coursework /s.
Noctor
"Dr." Katina Davis-Kennedy
Because University of Phoenix + FNP = Doctor.
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NP worries more about billing and reimbursement than what's wrong with the patient
Wow, OK...where do we start with this one? 39 years old, early kidney failure, high LFTs? A fatty diet could potentially explain the high LFTs, but kidney failure in a 39-year-old? Something serious could be going on here! Maybe even...hepatorenal syndrome in the worst case! Perhaps this midlevel
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Facebook Pediatrics Consult
This one has been making the rounds lately, but we share it anyway for posterity: FNP seeking advice on a 20 week old infant. Babies deserve more than a Facebook consult. #medtwitter #nursetwitter #legaltwitter #pediatrician #nursepractitioner #NPsLead #pediatrics pic.twitter.com/7zwn7dm5Gc โ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐. ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ก๐ (@RayneKThomanRN) January 6, 2021 If you were a
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Because Facebook is the new UpToDate
I wonder if Stacie's patients know that she gets her medication dosing from a Facebook group. Surely, if it's guideline-directed, those guidelines must be published online somewhere on a site more reputable than Facebook! But it probably doesn't matter if all those different medications
Nurse Practitioner
The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong with this one
I donโt enjoy having to check with a physician about my plan. #fullpractice now! #np โ Dr. Don (from Morningside), RN, DNP, JD, FAANP (@DonMorningside) December 27, 2020 There's a reason why nurse practitioners (a degree which requires as little as 500 clinical training hours) are meant to
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Midlevel discovers the easy way to becoming a radiologist
Who needs four years of college, four years of medical school, one year of internship, four years of radiology residency, and potentially more years for fellowship when you can just go online and spend a few minutes watching YouTube videos? This midlevel has it all figured out!