NP Please help!!

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Hi fellow nurses! My daughter is in college wanting to become a Nurse Practitioner. She has an assignment due this Wed. that requires her to interview a NP, PA or MD that can prescribe medication. She needs the following questions answered if anyone is able to help! Thank you so much! ❤️1. What is your name and your qualifications?
2. Tell me about yourself, and what interested you to start the career path you chose?
3. What is your favorite thing about your job?
4. Do you deal with any addicts within your profession?
5. How do you go about prescribing medications?
6. Do you ever feel worried about prescribing potentially harmful addictive drugs to people?
7. What do you need to look for to make sure a patient isn’t just “doctor shopping”?
8. Does your workplace help addicts and offer rehabilitation services?
9. What is your overall opinion on addiction?
10.Do you think the way the US is handling the drug problem is good?
11. If you said no to #10, what do you think we should be doing instead?

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Specializes in Occupational Health.

Are you seriously posting a homework question for your daughter who wants to be an NP but can't take on the most basic responsibility of completing her own homework assignments????

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Oh wow! Hopefully, I will never have you as my nurse! My daughter wrote  the questions and will be completing the essay on her own. I am only trying to help her get the questions out there to be answered. Obviously you do not have any children to understand that! 

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Specializes in FNP.

Is this even a real post?

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Specializes in Dialysis.
2 hours ago, Mathew Reed said:

Oh wow! Hopefully, I will never have you as my nurse! My daughter wrote  the questions and will be completing the essay on her own. I am only trying to help her get the questions out there to be answered. Obviously you do not have any children to understand that! 

No, we are nurses who've all been there. I never asked either of my parents (mom is a retired nurse) to help with my homework questions. At the masters level, she should be able to do this on her own. And yes, I do have children in their 30s. They have bachelor's degrees, and never once asked beyond general questions either

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Specializes in Occupational Health.
3 hours ago, Mathew Reed said:

Oh wow! Hopefully, I will never have you as my nurse! My daughter wrote  the questions and will be completing the essay on her own. I am only trying to help her get the questions out there to be answered. Obviously you do not have any children to understand that! 

Your attempt at justification is as pathetic as your rationale. If this is a real post you'd be well-advised to stop being a helicopter parent and demonstrate to your daughter what effective leadership/parenting is comprised of... (hint: you're not doing it)

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I guess I should have been more clear. My daughter is still in high school and perusing an associates degree in general studies (dual enrollment) hoping to become a NP. She is unable to post on threads due to being under age. No need for being so ugly. Geez

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele/ER/Urgent Care.

Associate degree in general studies, OK. What plans does she have to become an RN? Why does she want to be a NP? What specialty? Why the questions about addiction? What does she know so far about prescribing medications? No one on this forum is going to give out real name.

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Specializes in Dialysis.
17 hours ago, Mathew Reed said:

I guess I should have been more clear. My daughter is still in high school and perusing an associates degree in general studies (dual enrollment) hoping to become a NP. She is unable to post on threads due to being under age. No need for being so ugly. Geez

No one has been ugly, just realistic. I would suggest that she pursue these questions with a NP in the practice where you receive care. If non available, look at other practices in your town

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.
19 hours ago, Mathew Reed said:

I guess I should have been more clear. My daughter is still in high school and perusing an associates degree in general studies (dual enrollment) hoping to become a NP. She is unable to post on threads due to being under age. No need for being so ugly. Geez

There is a CLEAR "no homework" policy that is part of the Terms of Service that you had to agree to in order to join this forum. Sorry, but we don't give answers to homework questions that students need to do themselves and in-person. She should take the initiative to contact some local NPs in her area. Most would be very willing and happy to answer her questions if she states it is for a high school homework assignment. Good luck to her ? 

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19 hours ago, Mathew Reed said:

I guess I should have been more clear. My daughter is still in high school and perusing an associates degree in general studies (dual enrollment) hoping to become a NP. She is unable to post on threads due to being under age. No need for being so ugly. Geez

Unless she is under the age of 13, she can create an account and post herself. However, people are not allowed to answer HW questions on this site.

I would suggest getting on your local city's facebook page, or something similar, and asking if there is an MD, PA, or NP that has time to answer her questions.. since she seems pressed on time to get them answered and write an essay.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

sleepwalker - you said it so well! I couldn't put the words together as I'm sure many others thought the same. Kudos to you.

So now we have a parent lashing out at respondents for being honest. And calling names. Wanna bet how daughter will be responding when nsg school gets tough?!?

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