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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Hopefully, this groundbreaking case against California DNP Sarah Erny will set a precedent nationwide for legislators and law enforcement to pursue, prosecute, and punish nurse practitioners and other midlevel providers who attempt to fraudulently represent themselves as doctors/physicians.
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51-year-old midlevel NP Jessica Joyce Spayd of Eagle River prescribed ~4.5 million opioids with little to no medical justification causing addiction, suffering and deaths across Alaska.
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A collection of our favorite Spirit of Halloween midlevel memes scavenged from the internet, featuring NPs, NP students, PMHNPs, DNPs, PAs, and CRNAs!
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If you have no idea how to interpret a female patient's urinalysis or urine culture and decide whether or not she needs treatment, you have no business working in Women's Health.
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Louisiana sheriff's detectives arrested PMHNP Brennan C. Bergeron, 29, after receiving a complaint that he allegedly raped a victim during an office visit at a local health care facility.
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Go to medical school, complete a residency, and you too can get a physician salary!
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Call a spade a spade, and this "family primary care provider" for what he is - a midlevel, non-physician-provider.
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In the post-Roe v. Wade landscape of an America that has historically marginalized minority patients in healthcare, the mistreatment of black patients like Jillian by white midlevel nurse practitioners like Theresa Smigo cannot go unexcused or unpunished.
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An unsupervised nurse practitioner's negligence results in disastrous consequences for an epilepsy patient, including loss of her job and a trip to the ER for status epilepticus.
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A midlevel nurse practitioner's failure to recognize a classic textbook diagnosis results in unnecessary suffering for a patient.
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NP programs should require their students to take an IQ test before admission so that they don't become the laughingstock of healthcare.
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This story from an NP group on Facebook provides a valuable glimpse into the types of bottom-feeding scum being accepted into NP schools these days.