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Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners Fails to Increase Rural Healthcare
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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
Pharmacist laments midlevel mistakes
Who would have thought that physicians make fewer mistakes than midlevels?
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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.
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Comedy of errors: a medical student's list of midlevel blunders
28 short stories of midlevels messing up, badly.
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Radiologist saves a patient from midlevel mismanagement
Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Radiologist here with a little anecdote of an interaction I had a while ago with a midlevel in the emergency department. I come into work for my shift and open up my first case. Late-20s female presents to the ED
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Ski town NP unaware of indications for surgical referral for clavicle fracture
Originally posted on Reddit Long before I ever was aware of the problems with mid-level education and practice, I had my own run-in with a poorly trained NP. This was back about 20 years ago before there were any online diploma mills and direct-entry NP programs. When I was 18
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My experience as an M1 patient of an NP
Re-shared from Reddit This may be long, so I apologize. I just felt like I needed to tell this story and felt this page was the most appropriate. For about the past year and a half now, I have been having an issue of my hands getting very red, swollen,
The Midlevel Paradoxes
Compiled from Reddit 1. The Duality of Practice Paradox NPs: “We can do everything that a doctor does. We can diagnose, prescribe, and treat. We practice medicine!” Also NPs: “Nooo, it wasn’t malpractice I swear! I wasn’t practicing medicine, I was only practicing healthcare! You can’t hold
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NP doesn’t understand how urine cultures work
Tell the bacteria to grow faster, or NP Karen will not be pleased!
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Do NPs Really Get Enough Training?
Originally posted on Reddit I’ve been an NP for almost 5 years and was a nurse for 5 years before that. Nearly all of my experience has been in the outpatient setting, community health centers and urgent care clinics. I completed an FNP program at a very competitive school