PACPhD

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1. Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

   PACPhD replied to jstuben's topic in NP

   I work in a level 1 trauma center. I primarily work in ambulatory but also do some shifts in critical care, ob/gyn, medical, etc pods. I am not required to run anything by my SP. I tend to get some really sick people in ambulatory (bad triage system)...

2. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   I am sorry I was not able to reply for a couple of days. I had been working and didn't have a minute. Let me try to encompass everything said and asked from all of you. I am from NY and we do tend to "tell it like it is without sugar coating it". Jus...

3. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I am making this all up. I don't understand what possible rationale I could have for this. If I wanted to do some nurse bashing this would not be the place to do it. I would go where none of you could defend yourselves. And that is not what I a...

4. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   It was a hospital in Bay Shore, Long Island where two of the nurses loved to tell the director and anyone else who would listen that line. My fiance at the time was an ER attending physician. She told me one of the nurses played passive agressive wi...

5. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   You know, in Mississippi, in the 60's, when an Afro American had a problem with the way he was treated, it was always his own fault. I am trying to be polite here. I am a guest in your neighborhood. Basically you are telling me I am lying. You have ...

6. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   As far as the union issue goes, probably 50/50. I have actually had union nurses tell the physicians on numerous occasions "I'm union, what are you going to do, fire me?" Here is my take on the hospitals. I think 6 in NY - 3 were horrible for all of...

7. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   My apologies for not responding sooner. I work the night shift and just turned myself around and am squinting in the daylight. Where do I start. First, I want to thank many of you for your support. I guess I should try to clarify some of your concern...

8. Ooooooooh, I am SO ticked off right now!!!

   PACPhD replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   If you don't mind a response from a (emergency medicine) PA on the subject. I was also in the EMS world for 10 years. There is an old joke: What is the difference between god and a paramedic? God doesn't think he is a paramedic. When I take a report...

9. Never understood nursing

   PACPhD replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

   No, not a troll. May have been prior to this job I now have. You will just have to take my word for it but it was not a personal issue with me. The other clinicians in each plase also felt like they couldn't believe how everyone, not just me as a PA ...

10. Never understood nursing

    PACPhD posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know this is my first post on your forum, and I am a guest here. But I hopefully can get some answers to a problem that has seemed to plague me since I started practicing in medicine. I am hoping that you will be honest enough to tell me why things...