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Not offensive at all. I introduce myself by my first name, but many of my patients call me Dr. LastName anyway. I correct...

And IUDs, particularly the Mirena IUD, have uses other than contraception. (I haven't seen any information about coverage of...

I wonder if this is an issue of lack of experience rather than micromanaging. How long has the nurse been on your unit or...

My employer specifies 3 month notice for all providers. My experience is that most credentialing processes take about that...

I can really only speak to the ortho-type imaging. In the system I use, I choose the body part I want xrays of and it comes...

Just to argue for the sake of arguing, I had to refer a patient to a wound clinic this week for a burn I probably could have...

Not certain they'll only take ANCC, but all our NPs in my group are ANCC so it hasn't come up. It's possible other NPs at...

ANP/WHNP here. Couldn't find a WHNP job, working as an ANP with no OB/GYN at all. I miss it and want to get back into the...

It's not the science prereqs, it's the 4 years of med school + residency. Most of medicine is routine. I think it's a great...

And I saw a patient recently who refused to see a particular MD (one known nationally as a thought leader in his field)...

I'm thinking about doing camp nursing for a week or two over the summer. Camp is a 3 week session and a 5.5 week session,...

$70,000 in a small poor town is a lot more money than $85,000 in a major city.

You're going to spend ALL DAY doing physical exams on people in a wide variety of health states, plus reviewing med lists...

Exam was very straightfoward. As in, asked for primary tx of a disease given typtical presentation, not 3rd line tx in...

This is another program that may apply to some folks: Public Service Loan Forgiveness | Federal Student Aid. I know many in...

Not where I work... Providers currently seeing 25+ patients per day, many with extensive testing done by MAs or RNs (vitals,...

Anyone taken the new test for medical examiners? Advice?

With, like, 2-4 hours of studying the nurse specific stuff, yes. Absolutely yes.

I did rotations with a midwife in a Community Health Center (primarily OB, some GYN), an outpatient OB/GYN service at a...

Maybe a controversial belief, but I'm strongly opposed to routine pre-employment drug screening. I mean, I do it because I...