Your ENT specialty is nowhere near similar to what most nurses do at the bedside. You have to get accepted to a nursing program, graduate, pass the NCLEX, and get registered with the BRN, then you can...
Corey Narry replied to Nurse_man_89's topic in Operating Room
I work in one of those hospitals you mentioned. If I remember right, because this was years ago, I was moonlighting with the Cardiac Surgery service and there are dedicated Cardiac Surgery first...
Corey Narry replied to blistersonmyfingers's topic in Nursing Career
It is not uncommon in community hospitals. You have to clarify the statement - "They get the extra night shift pay to stay in house, but go home at night" - physicians are typically salaried. They...
I know of a Critical Care Medicine PA that did something similar at our hospital. Most of the in-patient APPs work 3 12-hr shifts a week. Anything over 40 hrs a week becomes overtime (per union...
We actually casually speak about this at work, sure AI can process objective information (VS, labs, test results) but can't do a physical exam. It can probably do a good job reading imaging studies...
Corey Narry replied to Dr Khader's topic in Psychiatric
If you sign up with an NP preceptor service. If you're active in healthcare social media (LinkedIn for instance), they aggressively pursue preceptors for desperate NP students. I am not familiar with...
You should pursue it, I'm sure there are other male midwives. In San Francisco, I know of one...SFGH Midwife
This is a commentary written by an Australian male midwife: Men in
I would recommend listening to podcasts. What is your specialty? there are many Family Practice related podcasts that discuss specific cases, treatments, recent evidence, etc. There are ones for...
Many institutions are using AI Scribes now. It does not replace the provider, rather, the AI program with the patient's consent, transcribes the entire provider-patient interaction and creates a...
San Francisco NP here. Nurses in union-represented hospitals are paid well but that is because the cost of living is high. So to answer your question whether it's a fair pay, I would say it is...
Thanks for that link for reference.
There is still a lot of contention since that was released. Even though AACN adopted those as standards of accreditation, Standard II (Institutional Commitment...
About a year ago, an experienced NP in Texas who works in Emergency Medicine made waves by attempting to publish a statement on the need for change in NP education. As one would expect, he made a lot...
Corey Narry replied to Corey Narry's topic in Critical Care
I wrote this case in 2013 as I found it interesting and I'm glad it is still getting some attention. I have now transitioned into an NP role in Cardiology and have thought about future CV case studies...
States have not required a DNP to be certified as an NP. What is happening is that schools of nursing have been phasing out MS or MSN programs and making the DNP the only degree offered leading to NP...