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1. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   Psychonaut - do you really think patients don't have any 'skin' in the game? I would suggest we patients have more skin in the game than anyone.... BTW - Not a Doc, not a med student, not a med student wannabe. Just a patient who used to think that...

2. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   llg - it is NOT irrevelant to me as a patient. If NP/DNPs are allowed to see patients without any type of physician supervision (as they are in 11 states), then to me they are 'practicing medicine'. Seems to me that the inflationary move toward DNP...

3. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   Dq, elk, & aj - thank you for that education. I had no idea that NP's were able to operate without any type of physician supervision or oversight anywhere, let alone in 11 states. While I knew the nursing organizations wielded incredible polit...

4. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   I was not aware of that. Do you know of a good source that lists what states do/don't require physician collaboration for NPs? Oh, and to make sure we stay on topic....do you know if there is a difference in physician collaboration requirements betw...

5. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   It seems like you are referring to me about "bashing" NPs. I have not done that, and I won't. Okay, you're not a mid-level, therefore you don't need a collaborating physician. But NPs do, just like PAs need supervising physicians. That is a great ...

6. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   Are you suggesting that DNPs will eventually have a greater scope of pracice than today's NP? What would that be? Complete independent medical care without the requirement of a collaborating physician?? Admitting privileges?? Sooooo....will a DNP ...

7. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   Isn't a primary role of nursing the education of patients? If you want to come into your patients room and introduce yourself as 'Hi, I'm Dr. Elisha, I have a Doctorate of Nursing, which allows me to be a Nurse Practitioner which is a mid-level medi...

8. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   llg - Absolutely folks with PhD, DNPs, DsCs, etc ad nauseum are "real" Doctors...within their profession. A DNP is a Doctoral level NURSE, not a Doctoral level physician. It is a rare patient, especially in a clinical setting, who will be able to dif...

9. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

   Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

   Efy: "I make it clear to patients that I am a nurse. I will also make it clear I have a doctorate (in a few years). If they chose to call me Dr. I won't discourage that although I prefer to be called by my first name...I think in the same token, nurs...

10. What is the difference between NP and DNP?

    Disinherited replied to ajhill00's topic in Doctoral

    Yup, a DNP gives the holder the title of Doctor. Same as my sister in law, who has a PhD in creative writing. She is a Doctor as well. Al gore is also a Doctor - UT just gave him an 'honorary' doctorate. It doesn't matter whether you have a PhD, ...

11. Have patients here ever refused service from you for being an NP?

    Disinherited replied to AcousticFoodie's topic in NP

    Foodie - The didactic and clinical education a physician gets is magnitudes higher than NPs or PAs get. By the time a MD/DO is handling cases in an ED they have had thousands upon thousands of hours of clinical experience, in addition to the years o...

12. Have patients here ever refused service from you for being an NP?

    Disinherited replied to AcousticFoodie's topic in NP

    I took my wife to an ER just a few weeks ago and, while we were seen by an NP, we insisted that we be seen by the physician as well. Why did we do that? Because I asked the NP what her background was. She had been a family practice nurse for a whol...