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?

Specializes in Hospice, Geri, Psych and SA,.

And of course the OP automatically goes for the "I hope you're never my nurse!" buckshot as though that should send a quake of dread through the community and cause us all to clutch our pearls having been given the ultimate insult by some random anonymous dude on the internet who got suckered in by his little princess into doing her homework.

 

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Specializes in oncology.
On 6/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, Mathew Reed said:

Hi fellow nurses! 

Are you a nurse? 

On 6/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, Mathew Reed said:

My daughter is in college wanting to become a Nurse Practitioner.

 

On 6/28/2021 at 9:52 PM, 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.

 

On 6/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, Mathew Reed said:

She has an assignment due this Wed. that requires her to interview a NP, PA or MD that can prescribe medication. 

Did you or she get the assignment done?

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Specializes in School Nursing.
On 6/28/2021 at 10:52 PM, 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

Wait a minute, in your post you said that our daughter was in college?? Which is it? 

As far as being a parent, I am one, and I would NEVER do something like this for my daughter. How is she going to learn how to  do her own work if Daddy keeps coming to the rescue for her? Are you going to do the work for her, in that case, I wouldn't want to go to her as a practicing health care professional. After all, she cheated and didn't do the work her self. My daughter obtained her 2 Baccalaureate Degrees and 2 Masters Degrees on her own.

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Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
On 6/28/2021 at 6:38 PM, 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! 

Oh wow yerself. My daughter has a PhD in physics and I haven‘t helped her with her homework since she was in middle school.
One reason she has this assignment is to see how successfully she can marshal resources and problem-solve. Herself. To the best of my knowledge, no institution of higher learning or licensure expects an adult student to get help from daddy in this learning path.

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Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
On 6/28/2021 at 4:08 PM, Mathew Reed said:

My daughter is in college wanting to become a Nurse Practitioner.

On 6/28/2021 at 10:52 PM, 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.

OK then, she’s under 13, in high school, in college, and thinks she wants to be a NP. Gotcha. 

Point her at a practice where NPs work (and drive her there if she isn’t old enough to have a license, who knows?), and show her how to look up its phone number so she can make an appt to talk to an NP. Wait for her outside, this is not your interview. Look at it as an opportunity for her to see you are confident that she can advance her own learning herself. 
Despite your greeting to “fellow nurses,” I’m not sure you know how many years of education she’s looking at. She certainly doesn’t. Let her find out herself. 

As to whether she gets her assignment done on time, if she doesn’t, then what?

If she gets a low or failing grade, then what?

Repeat as needed until you get to the point that the only answer is, ”She’ll learn to do things timely next time.” Also a good lesson. 

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I don’t need to watch gossip girls or pretty little liars.  I can just come here.  

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Specializes in ED, Tele, MedSurg, ADN, Outpatient, LTC, Peds.

Is this Comedy Central??!

 OP teach the gal to fish--!

I got daughters and I  would ask then to Google local NP office and ask them to call.

 Prepare the child for the road not the road for the child!

 All Luck as your heart is in the right place! Parents---we want to fix it but sometimes you have to back off and watch them take off!!

 

 

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On 6/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, Mathew Reed said:

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?

And all she has to do is "cut and paste". This is a good time in her life to discuss investigating sources for applied learning.... You can't hold her hand through college...cut the cord here

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Specializes in FNP.

Admin needs to remove this thread.  Obviously, it's someone baiting the NP profession.  

 

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