casias12
has 30 years experience and specializes in Cardiology nurse practitioner.
Extensive background in cardiology, with over 20 years experience as RN. Graduated ARNP 2 years ago. Working in large cardiology practice. On a daily basis, I round at hospitals, read EKG, echo and stress tests, as well as see patients in the office. I also perform venous ablation, and sclerotherapy.
My favorite video. I close all the time, primarily using interrupted buried sutures, or simple interupted sutures. Sometimes a mattress suture if the patient is kind of big. No class can teach you...
This is not correct. Incident-to billing allows for billing under the physician NPI at a higher rate as long as the NP/PA is following the alread-established diagnosis. Adding something new requires...
I guess it depends on a few "professional" factors. 1) How confident are you that you can handle situations appropriately. If you can handle most things until sun-up, and avoid bothering the on-call...
What a ridiculous thing to say. OP. If you are in a clinic and provide your own insurance, of course they need to verify this. It is their right to know that you are covering the patients you see...
Someone once said a cardiologist could be replaced with an app, a primary could be replaced with a Wal-mart greeter. I took that to mean that PCP's just refer patients out, loosely, by the body...
"I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless...
Welcome to the real world. Most provider groups are small, and can't afford the luxury of extended training for someone who has been trained to a Master's degree level. I imagine he is putting you...
As Flipper points out, they are going through "structural changes", but they are usually in a state of confusion. Most of their "programs" come and go because they are all pilot programs. I worked...
You are entitled to your opinion, but you are wrong on a few key points. How do they say it? You don't know what you don't know?â€. Anyway. Training is only a tiny portion of becoming an advanced...
You are much better off going from RN to NP. A nurse practitioner will always be a better degree. PA's will never operate independent of physicians in any state.... ever. NP's, on the other hand,...
Ummm.Ok.No. It doesn't pass through the right atrium into the PA. It goes from RA to RV then to PA. ECG waveforms don't change when it passes through. You read the pressure from the tip of the...
I feel the same way. I was a nurse for 15 years, and worked closely with physicians to gain trust and write "verbal" orders for things that made sense. As time went on, I think autonomy and...
It wasn't a surprise to me. I just wanted to present it that way to see what comments would be generated. This was a fictitious patient, but it did present several legitimate scenarios. 1)...