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"Why do they keep coming back?"
It doesn't take long for a second-year medical student to figure out what an FNP can't.
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User-submitted stories about midlevel incompetence that personally affected themselves or their loved ones.
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Coffee break during rounds
These nurse practitioners have absolutely no sense of shame, just like they have absolutely no regard for their own patients.
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Hemoglobin of 5.2, no big deal
It's not like they could be actively bleeding out or anything!
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Betty's Law - Texas
No more children need to die needlessly at the hands of incompetent nurse practitioners.
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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
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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
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Vent mismanagement
This patient would have died if there wasn't an ER physician around to clean up this "ICU" NP's mess.
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Overstepping FNP student gets put in her place
Openly contradict your attending in front of a patient? Bad, bad idea.
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How frustrating it is to work with Psychiatric NPs
Originally posted on Reddit by u/cmarie22345 I’m a clinical social worker and provide therapy and evaluations to children and adolescents. All of my clients are on some sort of medication...they’re also on Medicaid which puts them in the unfortunate spot of having to use lower income
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Nurse practitioner fails to diagnose sepsis, patient dies
University student, 19, died from sepsisToby Hudson was unable to speak to a doctor in Weymouth due to a faulty phone system and eventually gave up and decided to try again the next day.Mail OnlineFaith Ridler Here's a tragic and fatal case of midlevel incompetence and malpractice
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Why don't we have both?
Next-level nurse practitioner pharmacology.
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Putting the "nurse" in nurse practitioner
Nurse practitioner: nursing experience sold separately.