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  1. When Docs Cover Up Surgical Errors

    platon20 replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, docs do try to cover up mistakes, probably more often than nurses. HOWEVER, I think that there is a difference between doctor and nurse liability which contributes to this. When a nurse gives the...

  2. any ideas of how to get a NP for clinicals?

    platon20 replied to johnson0424's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yes its absolutely outrageous. NP programs should include dedicated training sites with prearranged preceptors. Any NP program that does not do this is PRICE GOUGING YOU! They are stealing your...

  3. NOW does the public understand?

    platon20 replied to FroggysMom's topic in General Nursing

    It has something to do with the fact that doctors are expected to be perfect or else they get hit with a lawsuit If we dont want doctors to have god complexes, lets STOP putting them up on pedestals...

  4. Med-Mal Reform -- Write your Senator

    platon20 replied to deepz's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Good grief let me straighten you guys out ONCE AGAIN..... I know everybody loves the mantra of big evil for-profit insurance carriers but that doesnt exist in the med mal world. 1) Half of all med...

  5. Can you be called "Doctor" with a PhD in Nursing?

    platon20 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thats because in Europe and Australia, you go straight from high school to medical school. No college

  6. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Depends on the state. In my state, CRNAs are virtually 100% independent from MDAs. They run intubations, extubations, and the gas all the way thru surgery from beginning to end, with no MDA. Hell...

  7. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    nurse god you keep bringing up the same stuff that I already addressed. I'm talking simple bread and butter surgeries here, not double transplants. Stuff like appys, lap choles, hernia repairs,...

  8. How do you take tests in online NP programs?

    platon20 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah I know the clinicals are separate and you gotta set taht up on your own. But what about the online lectures? How do they test you on that? Surely they dont let you do all take home tests do...

  9. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yes, and CRNA training is not equal to med school + 5 year anesthesiology residency. So why is it again that CRNAs are allowed to do anything an anesthesiologist can do, with ZERO supervision? Oh yeah...

  10. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In both cases, everybody said nurses were not capable or didnt have the understanding/training to do it. So although its not exactly the same thing, NPs/RNFAs CAN be trained to do surgery just like...

  11. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    yes I am an RNFA at a small rural hospital. Like I said, NPs dominate the surgery service here and the attending MDs train us like they train surgery residents at other

  12. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    People said the same things about nurses writing prescriptions "I would NEVER go to a nurse and let them write prescriptions for

  13. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Those are the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS that doctors made against NPs scripting meds. Yet we NPs do fine with them, and yes we manage complications with meds too. Meds can be dangerous, sometimes the...

  14. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    RNFAs dont need that much more training to do surgeries solo. i would suggest maybe an extra year, followed by a year working an apprenticeship under an MD surgeon. Then RNFAs could be called SPN...

  15. Can you be called "Doctor" with a PhD in Nursing?

    platon20 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yes I understand that PhD requires adding new knowledge to the filed. But thats really not that hard. All you ahve to do is get a couple of publications in low tier journals and the PhD is yours. We...

  16. Nurse Practitioners and expert witness experience

    platon20 replied to sirI's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thats true, but NPs are almost never sued. If an NP screws up, its almost always the hospital that gets sued, not the NP. NPs dont have big pockets like the physicians do. But yes, if an NP gets...

  17. Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

    platon20 replied to jstuben's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Be careful. ONe thing you will NEVER find on any state board of nursing website is that NPs practice "medicine." They swear up and down that we dont practice medicine, we practice nursing. the reason...

  18. Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

    platon20 replied to jstuben's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    thats all fine and good, but be warned that Medicare/insurance companies WILL NOT REIMBURSE YOU FOR THAT KIND OF STUFF. Thats why so many people dont engange in it, because it you have to do that...

  19. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    platon20 replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm talking about rural hospitals that are small and not staffed well by MDs. The MD surgeons at my hospital routinely let their NPs do most of the surgery while they do on the 15 minutes that are...

  20. Nurse Practitioners and expert witness experience

    platon20 replied to sirI's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    All states require that testimony in malpractice cases come from a physician. Furthermore, it has to be in teh same specialty as the doctor. For example, if you are sueing a neurosurgeon you cant...

  21. Med school enrollment and NP's/PA's

    platon20 replied to brownrice's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That USA today article is mostly wrong. The only thing that was correct was that US Congress controls Medicare funding for residencies. What it got wrong was: 1) the number of US residencies has...

  22. collaborating physician salary

    platon20 replied to saval's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I suggest you move to a state that does not require any collaboration or practice agreement. Then you wont have to pay anybody else other than

  23. np md clinic

    platon20 replied to wannabFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Which states dont require ANY collaboration to open up your own

  24. What are the BEST and WORST States to practice as an NP?

    platon20 replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thats not true. Chiropractors Psychologists Pharmacists Physical Therapists Can all write scripts in one or more

  25. What are the BEST and WORST States to practice as an NP?

    platon20 replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    OK, are you saying that I can move to New Mexico as an NP, open and run my own clinic, and that I DONT have to have a collaboration agreement with a doctor? I dont have to consult with him, I dont...