NY post slams NPs

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Specializes in psychiatric.

Wasn't this article just posted somewhere else? If anyone enjoys reading that kind of claptrap, just head on over to studentdoctor forums......

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Specializes in hospice.

Consider the source. The New York Post is owned by Newscorp, Rupert Murdoch's company. They seek to gain eyeballs for their media outlets, nothing more. If something is controversial or likely to upset people, they feature it. Truth and reasonableness are concepts that they ignore.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
Betsy McCaughey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Her educational background is in history, and she has no training in healthcare at all.
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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Like others said, consider the source. In the US there is free speech even if it is drivel.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Recovery.

I was reading the article carefully looking for any evidence to back up the claim that nurse practitioners provide inferior care. All I saw was conjecture and opinion. It is one thing to attempt to provide objections to credible research, and it is another thing to produce research that proves a positive statement (namely that nurse practitioners provide inferior care). Furthermore, this article doesn't seem to appreciate that the training of nurse practitioners and doctors hardly stops with school. As an RN I am studying constantly to fill in the gaps for anything I might have missed in my formal training. I have no doubt that this will be the case after I complete my nurse practitioner training. This article also fails to recognize that some doctors provide inferior care. Additionally, if I were to come across a difficult case, I would hope that I would have the ability to recognize my limitations and either refer to a specialist, or else consult with another colleague.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

They have no evidence. Every extant study on the topic shows similar or improved outcomes for NP directed care compared to physician directed care.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

When medical associations cannot win by evidence they always resort to public scare tactics.

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Specializes in Internal Medicine.
They have no evidence. Every extant study on the topic shows similar or improved outcomes for NP directed care compared to physician directed care.

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You beat me to it.

The speech I gave at my hooding ceremony touched directly on this. It called for us as new NP's and really all NP's to educate the general public about what we do, and how effective we are at doing it.

My guess is that this was written and published because of a medical lobby that wants to scare the general public, and the NY Post got a nice little check for writing it. When the author isn't a medical professional in any capacity and the article makes no evidenced based claims, it's scare tactics and fear mongering at its finest.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

I love the irony of their position on the issue and a profession supposedly founded on empiric evidence and supported by the third largest lobby in the country tries to scare-tactic the public by ignoring evidence and painting a picture of how common sense should tell them physicians are better capable of providing care based of breadth of education and that the powerful nursing is pushing an agenda placing the public in danger.

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I'm always amused by references to the "powerful nursing lobby" -- if nursing actually had a "powerful" lobby, the entire healthcare system in the US would be a LOT different than it is ...

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I am an RN and I agree completely with the article.

There is obviously no comparison between NP education and training and physician education and training.

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