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The VA Nurse Practitioner "Residency"
Welcome to the VA's perverted idea of what residency is.
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We're sending midlevels to outer space now?
29-Year-Old St. Jude PA, Cancer Survivor Chosen for First All-Civilian Space Trip Aboard SpaceXHayley Arceneaux of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis is headed to space — here’s how you can get a chance to join herPEOPLE.comJason Duaine Hahn I'm really happy for this woman
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Indiana Senate Bill No. 366
https://custom.statenet.com/public/resources.cgi?id=ID:bill:IN2021000S366&ciq=ncsl&client_md=d097407f1d2895552dabe22fda844dee&mode=current_text What a disgusting attempt at a power grab by physician assistants in Indiana. This bill creates a "physician assistant licensing board" and transfers authority for PA
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According to GW Hospital, residents are not physicians
When physicians aren't allowed into the Physician Lounge.
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Washington State wants to reimburse midlevel NPs at the same rate as physicians?!
Medicine is not a participation trophy.
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Support physician-led care in Mississippi: vote no to HB 1303
Physician-led, team-based care matters to Mississippians. Every Mississippian deserves the highest and safest level of healthcare possible. Vote NO to HB 1303. #MedicalSchoolMatters #PhysicianLedTeamCare pic.twitter.com/kcKudpXYIx — MS State Med Assn (@MSMA1) January 30, 2021
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Biased Medscape article attempts to paint false equivalency between physicians and nurse practitioners using cherry-picked studies
Independent NPs: What’s the Evidence?As more states change scope-of-practice laws to allow nurse practitioners to practice independently, what does the evidence on health outcomes show?MedscapeChristina Bennett "...the quality of care is largely equivalent [between patients seen by NPs and physicians]!" the article exhorts. Let'
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Ask Arizona Legislators to support unmatched physicians with SB 1271!
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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AAEM/RSA Releases Statement of Concern about the imploding EM physician job market due to proliferation of midlevel NPs and PAs
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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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.
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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/