TicAL

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1. Why is it so hard to find a preceptor?

   TicAL replied to WRNCEN's topic in NP Students

   I think most people who work in the field of medicine (MDs and nurses alike) know that this is completely false. NP students have no responsibility and are there to learn. In that sense they are similar to medical students except for the fact that ...

2. A landmark decision in my workplace

   TicAL replied to BlueDevil,DNP's topic in NP

   If they're going to pay an NP the same as an MD it makes no sense to hire an NP. No one is going to argue the fact that an MD goes through more training, why hire someone with less training and pay them the same when you can have the maximally train...

3. NP salary too low?

   TicAL replied to abcdefg's topic in NP

   To all of the NPs that state that no mid-level thinks they are equivalent to a doctor, read some of nomads posts on here. It's attitudes like his that makes physicians a little nuts and wanting to fight the NP movement. Since you decided to take th...

4. NP salary too low?

   TicAL replied to abcdefg's topic in NP

   I don't understand what's offensive about "MDs are paid for their expertise and skill that they have acquired over many years of academic and practical training." There's nothing in there to be offended by. MDs go through vigorous training and many ...

5. NP salary too low?

   TicAL replied to abcdefg's topic in NP

   Most NPs state that they are not the same as MDs, one is practicing nursing while the other is practicing medicine. MDs are paid for their expertise and skill that they have acquired over many years of academic and practical training.

6. Stubborn Docs, New Docs

   TicAL replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

   I have to say that I have seen the flip side of this as well. Some experienced nurses will absolutely abuse new docs and treat them with a complete lack of respect. Speaking to a new doc with a demeaning voice and making demands is belittling to th...

7. Update on offer from Dr. working as RN there while in NP school

   TicAL replied to lynn5707's topic in NP

   I don't think anyone is threatened, but you have to understand that there are some very intelligent people out there who work very hard to earn the title Doctor and they see this new wave of people with doctorates that put in less than a quarter of t...

8. Update on offer from Dr. working as RN there while in NP school

   TicAL replied to lynn5707's topic in NP

   I know you're trying to make a point by using the word doctor in place of NP, but it makes the post confusing and difficult to follow. If this is confusing on a board full of NPs, just imagine how confusing the doctor title for NPs will be for the p...

9. 2015 DNP

   TicAL replied to BabyLady's topic in Doctoral

   What you guys are describing is a medical school curriculum, if that's what you're looking for then wouldn't going that route be better? My impression of the DNP is that aside from the rhetoric about "clinical focus", it's really a program that's fo...

10. NP's working at teaching hospitals

    TicAL replied to cardschicarn's topic in NP

    Unless you are referring to unofficial teaching (the same way that RNs can show residents how to put in IVs, etc), NPs can't teach the residents (for legal and other reasons). Not even attendings from other specialties are allowed to oversee residen...

11. I feel like a idiot

    TicAL replied to pedspnp's topic in NP

    I know you're looking for support, but I have to say that this disturbs me a little bit. I would consider a penicillin rash "harm", these rashes can be very resilient and may ever require a patient to take a short course of steroids (which comes wit...

12. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

    TicAL replied to nursehunnie's topic in Professionalism

    Slippery slope here, some DNPs would be referred to as "1 year online degree" if they introduced themselves via level of education

13. Considering career as NP

    TicAL replied to UnbrokenRN09's topic in NP Students

    That article just has a list of what a practitioner should be capable of doing, it doesn't even mention how the practitioners are trained to achieve that competency.

14. Considering career as NP

    TicAL replied to UnbrokenRN09's topic in NP Students

    I don't think we're really saying the same thing. Just a few posts ago you seemed to get really offended when someone mentioned that NPs should partake in more non-online education and post graduate training. If the scope of practice and level of i...

15. Considering career as NP

    TicAL replied to UnbrokenRN09's topic in NP Students

    Forget the turf wars, the last thing that I would want is someone who isn't adequately trained to try and take care of me or my family for the sake of "competing with the physicians". The only way to truly start comparing an NPs ability to a physici...