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    Standardization of NP Education

    BostonFNP replied to RN-dancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It wasn't a jab, or if it was it was directed at nursing in general. Nursing loves its small-scale qualitative research. Sure the campfire is hot, we don't need a temperature reading to answer the...
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    Standardization of NP Education

    BostonFNP replied to RN-dancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    How are residencies going to help? Honest question. What does a residency offer? More collaboration? More clinical hours of instruction or broader clinical experiences? A holding pattern to...
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    Standardization of NP Education

    BostonFNP replied to RN-dancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Lol nursing loves subjective data that's about it. How do you propose that "we" require schools to have stricter admission criteria? What are the faculty and staff criterion for ACEN accreditation...
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    Standardization of NP Education

    BostonFNP replied to RN-dancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Medicine has had these problems with foreign medical graduates and, specifically, Caribbean medical schools. They had similar problems with osteopathic schools a few decades ago. They are able to...
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    Standardization of NP Education

    BostonFNP replied to RN-dancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Over the years I'm not sure how many times a core group of posters has debated this, but I do think/hope its been done enough times that we respect each other's opinions and while we may not see...
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    Is it jealousy ??

    BostonFNP replied to JaxsRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If we take all emotion out of this (which may be hard given how the OP was written) there are a few things we can say regarding nursing outcomes/quality as it relates to experience (from...
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    Complicated background, should I go to nursing school?

    BostonFNP replied to 2012bar's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Go here: https://pr.mo.gov/boards/nursing/375-0221.pdf Look at the questions you will need to answer for the BON; this is a big investment you are considering, don't risk wasting
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    SHHHHH, dont tell anyone I'm a RN

    BostonFNP replied to Barbie8808's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Make sure you have your personal malpractice insurance paid up now that you are an
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    BostonFNP replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    hospital is acute care, if you want to do acute care then take the acute care path. if you plan to work in outpatient clinic, take the primary path or potentially acute path for specialty
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    Shocked by MD attitude

    BostonFNP replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't think the ED referral was necessarily inappropriate, but we are missing some information. The patient was seen the day before and had labs done. Had the symptoms acutely changed since that...
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    Shocked by MD attitude

    BostonFNP replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah I think my big question would be (if I were the PCP) is that the ED is not a place for mystery diagnoses: what did you send the patient to the ED for? What was your differential? There should be...
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    Shocked by MD attitude

    BostonFNP replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think we have all gone through this, and while self-reflective practice is crucial to build our practice foundation, it also speaks to the importance of having mentors/collaborators in practice. I...
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    Shocked by MD attitude

    BostonFNP replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There are a couple of important lessons here, and you have nothing to feel bad about. 1. Novice providers (whether they are MD or DO or NP or PA) all over-refer and over-order when they enter practice...
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    Future FNP Program Student!

    BostonFNP replied to darnellescott's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It was the best advice you could get, along with make sure you turn that zero contacts into lots and lots of contacts before you consider grad school if they are not securing preceptorships, which is...
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    Which school should I attend.

    BostonFNP replied to Telenurse1990's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Eating the extra $30k as an investment on the rest of your career is better than taking a huge gamble and potentially wasting $35k on the other. Just my opinion. The quality of these programs is night...
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    Which school should I attend.

    BostonFNP replied to Telenurse1990's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Simmons is a much better investment of your time and
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    Complexity of Care/scope of practice

    BostonFNP replied to kayrose25's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Primary care here: there is no difference in the complexity of patients I see vs my physician colleagues. I have colleagues that work in both primary care and specialty settings that see the less...
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    Novice Providers & Mortality

    BostonFNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    "Patients cared for by physicians in their first year as hospitalists have worse 30-day and hospital mortality when compared with more experienced hospitalists. Hospitalists very early in their...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    BostonFNP replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah that's why I feel that it needs to come from the national accreditation and certification side of the equation: increase the board difficulty and make programs maintain a upper 70% board pass...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    BostonFNP replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If nothing else it will fix the
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    BostonFNP replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Remember if you take the boards as an NP you are on the clock for your practice hours if you want to be able to re-certify in five years. The RN role shouldn't be a holding pattern for NPs....
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    Investigating Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

    BostonFNP replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    See it quite often in my practice, the key to the diagnosis is hot showers because otherwise the vast majority of patients will insist that the marijuana actually helps their nausea (briefly) rather...
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    Los Gatos ER Physician in the News

    BostonFNP replied to CityofAngelsRN's topic in Nursing News

    I don't see how racism is the simplest explanation in this case but it very well could be a factor in it I guess. Do you think there is more to this story or do you think that 3 mins of video is the...
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    Los Gatos ER Physician in the News

    BostonFNP replied to CityofAngelsRN's topic in Nursing News

    I would agree unless it is not the first time the provider has met the patient and/or the patient was abusive to other staff
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    Los Gatos ER Physician in the News

    BostonFNP replied to CityofAngelsRN's topic in Nursing News

    Don't think it's illegal just highly