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anybody with a Dr. title in academics can be called doctor if they want, not sure why people would care to besides ego reasons. But in clinic, only physicians should be called doctor, otherwise it is misleading. Why does this matter if you are not an...

The rate limited step of pumping out a good provider, (excluding personal attention and effort to take care of the patient) is a rigorous education. Nursing experience may help but it does not replace the education being rigorous and relevant. That b...

You are correct BCgrad, nurses do not replace physicians. Nor should they think of themselves as equal. I know this goes against all of the nursing mantra but until they go through the same rigors physicians do then it will not happen.

I think the argument is more for profit school vs not for profit. There are good online programs if they at least require campus visits and such. For profit schools usually end up taking those who 1. do not want to put real work into his or her educa...

There isnt anything wrong with being an NP or other APRN. As long as one always knows they do not, will not, should not, never will have the same authority as a physician then it is not settling, it is a separate career path. The NPs i have met that ...

good luck getting hired. employers can see that red flag from the moon

because MD/DO actually know what they are doing. no difference in level of care lol. go drink more of your kool aid The states may have fallen for the nursing propaganda bus but the hospitals know better.

Medical schools teach patient centered care which is the same thing as holistic care. The only people who are saying "physicians treat the problem, nurses treat the person" are nurses. Its not like nursing has a patent on holistic care, nursing just...

second job. most places in the south arent a bad commute unless your in atlanta or some huge city.

yeah up until this point NP school was pretty much a gold set into a job in most places. Its fallen into the field of most degrees now though where you have to actually be good and/or go to a good school in order to get a decent job. Which really isn...

hard to tell anything without a full history. make sure its not medication related (do not know her history) Most not so common lipid disorders present at a young age (do not know her age but in children) (also not talking about the basic high choles...

you could sling a cat on a med surg floor or ICU and hit 12 nurses going back to NP school. 13 on a friday

of course it will be saturated. Everybody and their mom dog, cat, and 12 year old child is going back to become an NP so they can don the white coat, stick their noses in the air, make up fake studies of how NP=doctor, and talk down on lowly RNs. Its...

I would still advise PA school over NP school esp if you have a bachelors. the market in the 10 year stretch will be much more friendly to PA than NP. Just pick a cheap state school and again dodge the for profit bullets. Plus people are more likely ...

vets before illegal immigrants

Since you sent me a PM, I will tell you what I actually would do since holding back advice from somebody who wants to make it in life is unethical. 1. take prereqs, micro, A and P, do well in them, put the time in to understand whats going on with th...

I play nice in real life and spout painful truths on forums. Never argue in real life, just let people think what they want, could care less if they run themselves into a poop hole. Im on a 1 month vacation rotation so besides working on my lousy res...

first I wake up in the morning, drink my red bull then look into the mirror while I wear my glistening un earned white coat and say to myself "I AM BETTER THAN DOCTORS I AM BETTER THAN DOCTORS." Next I drive my 15 series BMW to work, where I work at ...

Accounting. What you ask isnt really available in the medical field unless you are like a dermatologist. Plus the florida job market sucks but it sounds like you want the easy path so i would go to some easy online for profit then work at CVS where t...

You'll prob do great if you have the motivation and ethic to read those two books. Robbins is a good read, have not read entire thing but used the pictures and charts in it and went back to the text as needed for step 1, and used its review question ...

You sit there and ask for proof in all your posts and point towards studies that prove nothing but the fact NPs can manage HTN, cholesterol, and some Diabetes. You know it is true that NP education is lackluster, the AMA has bigger fish to fry such a...

It isnt trolling just because it does not agree with you. The average NP functions at the level of a third year med student at best. A few are good but most are not. Biased nursing studies do not prove equality, but with hand picked research publishi...

I honestly do not understand the intro story either. It is basically a quick shot at physicians, labeling them as socially inept, and prompting forced equality between NPs and the resident in the story. Explicitly stating that he is being supervised ...

you have to have completed 2 years of med school to sit for USMLE, why would anybody drop out of med school to do nursing after 2 years? Very few questions are about treatment rationale, its mostly science based mechanisms on step 1. you probably hav...