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NP doesn’t understand how urine cultures work
Tell the bacteria to grow faster, or NP Karen will not be pleased!
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Nurse Practitioner
The DNP is a rigorous degree with very demanding coursework
...as demonstrated by this "project" that was posted to a large Facebook NP group: Ask yourself: in what world is creating an online survey considered to be appropriate coursework for what is supposed to be a terminal, doctoral-level degree? High school students have completed projects that were much
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I feel like I was duped...
Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. A short background: I graduated as a biology major in 2015, worked as an outpatient surgical assistant through 2019, then went to get my BSN, RN. This BSN, RN program was accelerated, one year long, and designed for students with
Stories
Orange-flavored scalp staples
Anonymous submission (emergency physician) EM here. So the hospital was trying to hire a new midlevel one day. They found a family medicine NP who had a few orientation shifts. The NP staffed a patient with me as "patient came in with a headache. It's moderate. Also
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NP has no clue about imaging results, posts entire radiology read online for help
Can anyone interpret the interpretation?
Nurse Practitioner
The NPs' dirty laundry, round 2: Reaction to diploma mills
In reference to Round 1 for PMHNPs After the Match: Boosting Profits Drives NP Diploma Mills : Emergency Medicine NewsAn abstract is unavailable.LWW An article entitled "Boosting Profits Drives NP Diploma Mills" published in the February 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine News has been making quite a few
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Make Algorithms Great Again
Why bother learning medicine when there's an easy algorithm for everything?
Stories
NP: "I told him it might be a heart attack"
"Might be"? It's a fucking STEMI!
TikTok
Midlevel doesn't like their own job title
If you don't want to be called a midlevel, then go to medical school and become a physician.
Stories
Do NPs Really Get Enough Training?
Originally posted on Reddit I’ve been an NP for almost 5 years and was a nurse for 5 years before that. Nearly all of my experience has been in the outpatient setting, community health centers and urgent care clinics. I completed an FNP program at a very competitive school
Stories
"Why do they keep coming back?"
It doesn't take long for a second-year medical student to figure out what an FNP can't.
News
"Dr." Gerald "Jay" Baltz, PMHNP and the tragedy of Stevie Ryan's death
Medicine 101: Don't sleep with your patients.