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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would agree that most PAs working in those roles received on the job training. There is nothing stopping the WHNP for receiving training for those roles. Similarly the WHNP is eligible to get...
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    WHNPs may have more extensive training in Womens health, but there are a number of reasons that a OB/GYN may choose a PA. The most appropriate comparison and competitor for PA jobs is actually the...
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    there are only two programs that do this: stanford and uc/davis. both give a very limited exposure to surgery, em and im. so if you are interested in doing one of these specialties you are going to be...
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    None really. The difference is going to be whether the local area hires PAs or NPs. There are only about 200 Psych NPs and CNS produced each year. On the other hand there are only about 400 PAs...
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    Abdominal pain

    core0 replied to dory2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    not sure if this is a patient presentation or someones child. could you clarify this? david carpenter,
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Independence has been addressed ad nauseam here. I used to think that the part time aspect was an advantage. Now seeing some of the posts here I am less sure. With PA school I could not see focusing...
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Getting medical experience will never hurt you. There are about 1/3 of the PA programs that will take students without medical experience. The others either require it or "strongly recommend it"....
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    Advantages/Disadvantages of NP vs PA

    core0 replied to amzyRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I guess I can give you my gestalt. If you want to do surgery - especially CVS or ortho then PA is the predominant provider. Otherwise it really depends on the local environment including state...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Nice post. I will take one portion (which I hope is not out of context). This is the essential problem with nursing assessment and nursing diagnosis. Nurses are professionals and as such should be...
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    Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    core0 replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Actually the answer to this is we don't know. There is only one study that compared BC/BE physicians to NPs. That study showed one difference but had too many flaws to be valid. The follow up study...
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    DNP Article

    core0 replied to prairienp's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    two issues. health care has evolved since the 1960's. instead of 50 or 60 antibiotics we have several hundred. even simple issues have become more complex (look at the volumes of papers written on om...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I will have to disagree with this. Nursing involves a lot of independent consideration. We usually don't put parameters on meds but I would expect that the nurse would hold morphine if the BP was low....
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We talk about lifetime learning and that is true but incumbent on that is also lifetime teaching. David Carpenter,
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    the dnp will not automatically give nursing validation. if anything nps should be competency based and that should give them validation. what you are really looking for is assurance that nursing is a...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    i can tell you what 7 years of being a pa and another 10 working in the medical field has shown me. i would tell you that 9/10 physicians couldn't tell you what a nursing diagnosis was if you showed...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    manipulation may be a poor choice here, but includes that technique that must not be named on a nursing board. i agree medicine is a practice and not set in stone. however, we use the best practices...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    we don't know exactly how some medications work, but we know the effects and side effects. while there are metric tons of material on the influence on mind and physiology, there is very little good...
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    The Usefullness of Nursing Diagnosis in Medical Decision Making

    core0 replied to n_g's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    many of the problems that you describe are a function of short hospital admissions mandated by insurance. we used to do social admissions and could keep someone around until they were "all better". on...
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    DNP Article

    core0 replied to prairienp's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    You should look up the definition of tenure. David Carpenter,
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    Jcaho

    core0 replied to CSHRN's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite is that all of the junk that normally litters the halls is magically gone for a few brief and shining moments. You can actually get a gurney down the hall. You are not banging in to things...
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    Q for the OR nurses??

    core0 replied to Mia33's topic in Operating Room

    i would do some combination of 2,3, and 4. you should try to count disposables always. you should inform the surgeon up front that you haven't counted instruments. you should follow your incorrect...
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    question from a surgical patient

    core0 replied to AilanMedici's topic in Operating Room

    This really doesn't make any sense. I have never seen med students involved in pre or post op teaching. As long as we are guessing how about something completely different. Such as medications: pre...
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    PA Prescription Pads

    core0 replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    PAs have prescriptive rights in all states. Design of prescription pads depends on the state. In Colorado the pad had the PA's name and the supervising physician. Most practices have one pad that has...
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    What is your "wash out" rate?

    core0 replied to akijitsu's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You can also look at this on a global level. There is a publication by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing that looks at all graduate nursing programs. The 2006 data shows 2,793 students...
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    count sheets

    core0 replied to joeshaf's topic in Operating Room

    From the 1999 guidelines (I am pretty sure this is unchanged in 2004): David Carpenter,