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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Cite sources please. Zelnik, M., & Kim, Y. J. (1982). Sex education and its association with teenage sexual activity pregnancy and contraceptive use. Family Planning Perspectives, 14(3),
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    Taking AANP *AND* ANCC?!

    BostonFNP replied to MILOBRI's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The AANP awards the NP-C credentials (not FNP-C) and the ANCC the FNP-C credentials. Many states have requirements that you use an official designation to sign (in my state it is CNP), so the board...
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Not requiring special cleaning/care does not mean there is no benefit. "Systematic evaluation of English-language peer-reviewed literature from 1995 through 2010 indicates that preventive health...
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is a topic for a different thread but there is a substantial amount of data on the health benefits and risks and I am not sure it supports your
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Benefit?
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Many moons ago in an A&P class for pre-nursing entry at a local community college we were talking about ovulation. One of the girls in the class (in her early 20s) raised her hand and asked "how...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    It makes me sick that legitimate patients can't get the medication they need, however, we know there is a fairly strong correlation between the availability of legimate prescription opioids and opioid...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    There is some data out now on the changes made in Florida to curb their opioid problem (and for reference, a DEA report up here in MA determined that a considerable amount of the pills on our streets...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    No absolutely not. You have pain with a clear ongoing etiology. Your initial insult has not resolved. More-so, you have suffering due to the pain. You are an appropriate patient to be using...
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    Do Female Docs Provide Better Care to Their Hospitalized Patients Than Male Counterparts?

    BostonFNP replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Where are you getting this figure from exactly? The estimated annual hospitalizations per
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    Do Female Docs Provide Better Care to Their Hospitalized Patients Than Male Counterparts?

    BostonFNP replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    This is a really interesting issue right now in medicine, and you hit the nail on the head as far as how this could sway the results towards the female providers. When you take large groups of...
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    Urine Drug Screen ....surprise!

    BostonFNP replied to casias12's topic in Advanced Practice

    One of our local doctors got fed up with it last year and she just decided to stop writing narctoics. She felt like it took too much time away from other patients. She can't stop talking about how...
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    Do Female Docs Provide Better Care to Their Hospitalized Patients Than Male Counterparts?

    BostonFNP replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    You go girls! I hope that male providers invest their efforts in learning from their female colleagues what they can do to improve their outcomes rather than focusing on how to discredit the growing...
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    DEA #

    BostonFNP replied to sc0811's topic in Advanced Practice

    I would bail out of that practice ASAP, to be honest. You absolutely can not sign a script that has another providers DEA number on it; if a pharmacist catches it and reports if you will lose your...
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    New NP: Nervous, need resources and advice!

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

    There is nothing worse than those
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    Mom In need guidance!

    BostonFNP replied to Hockeymom65's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Quality programs have become very good at the Hybrid model and offer a very similar academic experience without requiring the students to be seated in a classroom. Nursing, as you can imagine, does...
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    Mom In need guidance!

    BostonFNP replied to Hockeymom65's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    MGHIHP has a better reputation than MCPHS. Board pass rates are similar over the pas few
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    It is a really scary fact that incidence of NAS in the US has risen from 1.5/1000 to 6/1000 over just 10
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    To tell or not to tell?

    BostonFNP replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

    Tell the faculty. It is not good for you, the other students, the patients, or the program to have that kind of thing happening. It's an easy fix for the program: stop using those questions, let the...
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    Urine Drug Screen ....surprise!

    BostonFNP replied to casias12's topic in Advanced Practice

    Interesting, you refilled her narcotic even though she tested
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    Urine Drug Screen ....surprise!

    BostonFNP replied to casias12's topic in Advanced Practice

    I should have explained more. The benzo is a problem; when I say it's not "my problem" was that regardless of the positive bezno, the same issue remained with the narcotics. There is no explaining...
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    Urine Drug Screen ....surprise!

    BostonFNP replied to casias12's topic in Advanced Practice

    There are some concerning details here: she's chronically taking a short acting narcotic for (what I assume) is low back pain in the setting of obesity, she is a stage 1 COPD so I assume a ?smoker...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    I have some extensive practice experience in prescribing these meds and managing both acute and chronic pain patient from the in-pt and out-pt sides. I also did a fellowship in in-patient palliative...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    I understand this is a personal as well as a professional issue to you. I really can't speak to the personal side, only the professional side. I am sorry you or your family/friends have had difficulty...
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    prescription drug addiction

    BostonFNP replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    I think what the PP was getting as was that chronic pain becomes it's own disease. After a period of 12 weeks, the chronic pain is no longer associated with the initial insult. This is the major...