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ER NP places a STAT Facebook consult for compartment syndrome
Clearly, asking the Facebook peanut gallery for help during a limb-threatening surgical emergency is the most appropriate course of action.
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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Urine trouble: NPs demonstrate a piss-poor understanding of pee
Urine for a real golden treat with this post.
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New urgent care NP urgently needs some self-awareness
Who wants to take bets on how long this oblivious NP will last?
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[VIDEO] A visit to Dr. Karen, DNP: confusing credentials and a diagnosis of bronchitis
Nurse, doctor, or both? Anyway, it's just bronchitis. Nothing that a Z-Pak and steroids won't fix!
Nurse Practitioner
Urgent care NP sends patient off to the ED to get a cardiac stent
We can feel our troponins rising after reading this tale of sheer midlevel stupidity.
Nurse Practitioner
When an NP gets mad at you for seeing a real doctor
Originally posted on Reddit by u/RandomFlamingoo. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Earlier this year I switched my care in my primary care's office from an NP to an actual doctor in the practice, and ever since, whenever the NP or her assistant have seen me, they
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The NP approach to cancer: the chemotherapy cheat sheet
Why spend three years in a hematology-oncology fellowship when you can just become an NP and ask Facebook for a list of chemo meds?
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioner missed a fatal diagnosis
Nurse practitioner? More like death practitioner.
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The Elite NP's unethical misadventures in self-prescribing
Don't you just hate it when you accidentally overdose yourself?
Nurse Practitioner
NP forgets the names of ALL the antibiotics
Can you imagine a PGY-1 intern, even on day #1 of residency, not being able to remember the names of any antibiotics? It's a scenario about as probable as the chances of Walden University becoming a respectable educational institution. On the contrary, the average medical student could rattle
Nurse Practitioner
I'm a doctor, the badge says so!
Why waste years of your life in medical school when you can just get a badge that says "Doctor"?
Nurse Practitioner
Children's Medications are Dosed in Milliliters, not Milligrams
Those advanced pharmacology classes in NP school must be outstanding.