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Ask AZ Legislators to SUPPORT SB 1271!Help speak out to increase access to primary care in Arizona. YES to SB 1271.Association of American Physicians and Surgeons With 1,831 new graduates of US MD and DO medical schools going unmatched (and thousands more from international medical schools) in
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GrassRoots Functional Medicine - VT, NH, TX, OR, FLDr. Seth Osgood treats the underlying causes of chronic disease at Functional Medicine clinics in New Hampshire, Vermont, Texas, Oregon, and Florida.GrassRoots Functional MedicineTyler T. With a spiffy sweater and a stethoscope around his neck, if you were a layperson checking
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675 clinical hours and it's off to work in the cardiovascular ICU.
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AAEM/RSA Statement of Concern for Graduating EM Residents and the Current Job Market | AAEM Resident and Student AssociationThe American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA) is a non-profit professional association for emergency medicine residents and medical students.AAEM/RSA - AAEM Resident and Student Association
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Same reason we say: โNurse Anesthesiologistโ Except we must work 100% harder for 70% of the credit and 50% of the pay https://t.co/nu09atdc2x โ Dr. J.DeLoz, DNAP๐บ๐ธ (@JoshDeloz) January 28, 2021 Anyone who feels the need to prefix the term "anesthesiologist" with "nurse"
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Beaumont Health and NorthStar (DeathStar?) Anesthesia clearly have their priorities straight.
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?
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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/
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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 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
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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.
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Because University of Phoenix + FNP = Doctor.