Noctor
"Dr." CeCe Brooks, DNP - "The Discovery Doc"
Whenever I'm feeling sad, I take out my medical school diploma and start caressing it.
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.
Nurse Practitioner
I'm a human, not a dog
It's time to see the dogtor.
News
Betty's Law - Texas
No more children need to die needlessly at the hands of incompetent nurse practitioners.
Nurse Practitioner
The PMHNPs' dirty laundry
The PMHNPs' day of reckoning is coming.
Nurse Practitioner
Thyroid storm
So much fail, indeed. How do you jump from palpitations in what sounds like an otherwise healthy patient with normal vital signs to thyroid storm? Does this NP even know what thyroid storm is? Clearly, the answer is no. I'm no endocrinologist, but I paid enough attention in
Nurse Practitioner
Have your cake and eat it too
So you want a challenge, eh? You want that "extra push"? Not sure how challenging it'll be to buy an NP degree from a 100% online, for-profit diploma mill program. May we suggest the challenge of four years of medical school, followed by a 5 (or
News
Anti-physician propaganda from Texas
Based on multiple reports circulating on social media, it seems that the nurse practitioner lobby in Texas is actively attempting to discredit physicians and the group Physicians for Patient Protection (PPP) as part of their effort their to push for full practice authority via House Bill 2029 and Senate Bill
Noctor
"Dr." Cheryl Winter, DCN, FNP-BC/APRN, RDN
Our next noctor by the name of Cheryl Winter certainly has no qualms about presenting herself as a doctor to potential patients. "Dr." is not only in her website's domain name, but also festooned across the website from the header to the footer. It's
Nurse Practitioner
Who needs rural primary care when you can get a Botox injection instead?
One of the AANP's favorite talking points to expand the number of nurse practitioners and support their push for full practice authority is that, supposedly, an increase in the size of the NP workforce will lead to an increase in access to primary care in rural areas. However,
Social Media Consults
Let me Google that for you
NP Lesia, it would have been much, much faster to enter your query into your search engine of choice rather than to post this in a Facebook group. Here, let us show you: https://lmgtfy.app/?q=johnson+and+johnson+vaccine+side+effects&iie=1 Makes you wonder -
News
Finding NP student preceptors is becoming a big business
Once again, the free market provides.
Stories
NPs say the darnedest things
Originally posted on Reddit I'm a third-year medical student and these are actual things I've heard the NPs I've worked with say over the course of the year. Bare in mind all of these people are in practice and have been for years and