Nurse Practitioner
Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners Fails to Increase Rural Healthcare
Courtesy of u/debunksdc and u/pshaffer on Reddit
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are the quintessential midlevel provider, coming in various flavors such as FNP, AGACNP, and PMHNP. Numbering ~325,000 in the US, these midlevels' education often consists of little more than an online diploma mill degree and 500 hours of clinical exposure, amounting to less than 5% of a physician's training. Yet, many states allow them to practice independently without physician supervision or oversight.
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Strep throat antibiotic roulette
We developed antibiotic-induced Clostridium difficile infection after reading this post.
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Very fundamental, indeed
We're going to need some IV hydralazine after reading this.
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No, it's for rate control
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
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Wound care 101: the moron NP and her snatch-biscuit receptionist
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
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The NP papers: piling on the bullshit
Who would have known that medicine can't be learned by writing useless papers?
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The happy dance of ignorance
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
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Asymptomatic UTI, Symptomatic Stupidity
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
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Noctor to Doctor: Nurse practitioner wants to go to medical school because she's "tired of needing a collaborative agreement"
"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
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Florida Woman: Nurse practitioner moonlights as COVID conspiracy theorist
Florida Man, meet Florida NP.
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You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
There's nothing elite about this nurse practitioner's procedural credentials.
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Genius FNP takes a novel approach to cancer diagnosis and management
Clearly, the first-line treatment for vulvar cancer is antibiotics.