People can believe what they want to believe, but cycling through the comments of that story (and comments on SDN) I can't help but wonder what the real world professional relationship of MDs/DOs/PAs with NPs must be. If the work environment is any reflection of what people are posting online, how can anyone get along at work if people are secretly harboring these feelings of animosity?
I am hoping that the internet is just attracting individuals with the most grudges and not a real reflection of any underlying feelings that a majority (or even a large minority!) of physicians may have...please tell me this is true!
Specializes in Emergency, Cardiac, PAT/SPU, Urgent Care.
I haven't seen it in my "real life" experiences, either. I just find it funny and a little odd that so-called physicians have that much time to sit online and come to a "Nursing" Web site of all places to speak negatively about NPs - I mean, really?? This is where they come in their spare time?? Kind of makes you wonder......
It was a physician who originally came up with the idea of the NP ...
Actually, the NP role was developed by a nurse--Dr. Loretta Ford. Dr. Silver, a pediatrician, was an important element, but not the primary driving force.
Actually, the NP role was developed by a nurse--Dr. Loretta Ford. Dr. Silver, a pediatrician, was an important element, but not the primary driving force.
I'm always happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but that's not the version I've always heard. I've always heard that it was Dr. Silver who went to Dr. Ford to suggest the idea and develop the role. I wonder if the NP community just likes the "nurse-centric" version better? :) I'm sure that, this many years later, it would be hard to pin down the exact sequence of events, in any case.
Spacklehead, MSN, NP
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I haven't seen it in my "real life" experiences, either. I just find it funny and a little odd that so-called physicians have that much time to sit online and come to a "Nursing" Web site of all places to speak negatively about NPs - I mean, really?? This is where they come in their spare time?? Kind of makes you wonder......