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1. Midlevels trashed again by MDs

   cgfnp replied to cgfnp's topic in NP

   It's too bad that moron fake PA gave the MDs someone to point their finger at. They don't want the bad publicity, so they look for a scapegoat, in this case it was an unlicensed PA.

2. Midlevels trashed again by MDs

   cgfnp posted a topic in NP

   Did you see the latest cover of medical economics? Big, bold title showed $200+ million lawsuit, and in big, red letters it says, "It started with a midleves mistake". Turns out it was an unlicensed PA that was involved, but now all of us under th...

3. Too much work, too little play

   cgfnp replied to cgfnp's topic in NP

   I think it's the 24 hr ED/hosp call that breaks this camel's back. It's frustrating and sleep depriving. I have to do around 25% of the call. Doesn't sound like much, but it feels like a lot.

4. Too much work, too little play

   cgfnp replied to cgfnp's topic in NP

   I could, and have a really good offer, but I'm making too much money now to change. I was having a really bad group of days and venting a bit. There are positives, like the fact that since there is no doc backup I have to learn everything and it's ...

5. Too much work, too little play

   cgfnp replied to cgfnp's topic in NP

   I did the same thing. I know how you feel. Hang in there. There are good days and bad. I was getting super stressed and super tired and vented a bit. It's not that bad some days. You will always have the experience that you are going through no...

6. Too much work, too little play

   cgfnp posted a topic in NP

   Ever feel stretched so thin it makes you wish you never got into healthcare in any form? I'm about spent here.... a rural hospital with the only doc on vacation so I'm it for the ER/hospital/LTCU and clinic and literally people all around me waitin...

7. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

   cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

   Yep. Primary care clinic, with inpatient rounds on my admissions and 1:4 ER/LCTU/Acute call. 1:4 would be nice, but I somehow get stuck with about 40% of the call time. And I get paid the least of the 4 for the call time. I get more angry every s...

8. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

   cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

   I work in one of the most rural places in America. Yes I know what it's like. I don't rotate there. I work there. Once again, I think it would be better to put up with the rural %$& independently than be in a urban setting without autonomy. I...

9. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

   cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

   Everything. The call, the pay, the lack of administration, the patients constantly bothering you for more and more, the drug seeking tax-dollar slugs on welfare and medicaid, the movement toward government run socialization of medicine, the ones who ...

10. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

    Not so much that anyone wants to. We'd just rather live rural and independent than urban and not. Lesser of two evils. Doesn't really matter to me personally, as after 3 yrs out of school, I already hate it so much that I make a daily attempt to f...

11. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

    Wrong again. Autonomy won't give any advantage to fam practice NPs in a place with all the goodies where all the MDs have flooded to. I would much rather practice independently in a rural area than joined at the hip with a MD in museumville.

12. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

    Let's see... more autonomy, how about complete so I don't have to have an even higher overhead and startup expense to open a new clinic in a rural place that doesn't have one. Then I see around 5000 people a year who likely wouldn't have seen anyone ...

13. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

    Compared to yrs ago, they most certainly are starving for students. And so are fam practice residencies. Keep thinking you are on par with God as your last sentence suggests and remember all those rural nobodies that will die without proper primary...

14. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    cgfnp replied to kittyw's topic in NP

    This is the school of thought of the general opposition to any change such as a bridge program for midlevels. It makes sense to me, however, in a growing shortage of fam docs... why not create a bridge program that includes all the essential science...

15. Help! Did I screw myself?

    cgfnp replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in NP

    Bullseye. You could attempt to find a career field that is loaded with more ambiguous and meaningless material, but you will not succeed. Nursing education makes me nauseous. The nursing educators will argue that you need to write papers about wha...