Nurse Practitioner
Independent, unsupervised NPs don't belong in the emergency department
And the Emergency Nurse Practitioner certification is basically a joke.
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.
Social Media Consults
Titrate insulin to Facebook PRN
Consulting Facebook for help with titrating your patients' insulin - what could possibly go wrong?
News
The Hattiesburg Clinic study: midlevels should NOT function independently
An analysis of almost 10 years of data provides some of the clearest evidence yet that midlevels need to be closely supervised by physicians and kept on a short leash.
Skits
Interview with the President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Watch our exclusive interview with the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) about the role of Nurse Practitioners and how they are revolutionizing American healthcare!
Social Media Consults
"She need a get off the couch med"
Perhaps in response to our revelatory exposés of idiotic midlevel social media consults, we've noticed a substantial uptick in the number of aforementioned social media consults being nebulously reframed as "case studies" or "asking for a friend"-type questions. Here, we have an example
Social Media Consults
It all looks foreign to me!
On today's episode of "Things you should have learned in school before touching real patients", we have this gem from newly minted family NP Grace Metzger working in primary care in Andrews, NC through Erlanger Health System. Apparently, NP Grace sees "a bunch of derm&
Social Media Consults
PMHNP has "zero experience treating ADHD"
Can you imagine an attending psychiatrist making it through medical school, board exams, and psychiatry residency without knowing how to treat ADHD? Fucking hell, even a competent internist, family physician, or pediatrician could at least competently initiate treatment for ADHD. Imagine going to a dealership and buying a car, only
TikTok
Will the real doctor please stand up?
When patients ask for a doctor, they sure as hell aren't referring to a PMHNP.
Social Media Consults
Elite NP performs an elite diagnostic workup
Can anyone help this elite midlevel with her patient's clinical conundrum?
Nurse Practitioner
Understanding roles on the health care team
Courtesy of the Indiana Physician Coalition.
Stories
NP students don’t know rudimentary medicine
"But holy shit, you’d think interpreting a CBC was worthy of a Nobel prize after working with these people. FPA is lethal to patients."
Social Media Consults
It's called "going to medical school"
Some skills are so basic and fundamental to the practice of medicine that it would be literally impossible for a medical student to graduate from medical school without possessing them. Needless to say, one of these skills is learning how to interpret basic labs such as a CBC and BMP/