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    Beng told not to become an NP!

    You have an interesting dilemma. Unsolicited advice (as a non NP) is that first you have to make a decision whether or not to do CRNA. This is sufficiently different than your other choices that this...
  2. Its like we used to say about Army medicine; its a good system if your not sick;). It does well with self limiting conditions (those that respond to benign neglect). It also does well with acute...
  3. You have obviously missed my cake and steroids lecture. If they come in sick give them cake (or steroids). If they come back give them the other one. This actually goes to the fact that most...
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    Any MBAs out there?

    Ahh
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    Any MBAs out there?

    You might want to post this question in the nursing management forum (actually someone else asked the same question recently). https://allnurses.com/forums/f67/ I thought there was a nursing...
  6. i would maintain that compared to traditional np programs this is young (at least from personal observation). whether this is good or bad i really have no opinion. the one good point of the de is that...
  7. Little bit of a rant here. I will state that I have some interest in the NP profession in terms of competition but my concerns come from a medical delivery standpoint. The APN educational model has...
  8. you state you are united in the fact that you are nurses while stating that nursing experience is not valuable or useful (to paraphrase your initial statement). nursing is united by a common...
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    Coding help?

    It depends on if you are doing any debridement. There is a separate code for port removal and you should charge the CPT code for that. For wound care you would charge the appropriate code for the...
  10. If I am reading the thread right you have never had Versed or a colonoscopy? I don't understand your aversion to Versed. There are more than 10,000 colonoscopies done every day, the great majority of...
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    med/surg for LPNs after LTC?

    Longmont is between Boulder and Fort Collins. Its not that far from Westminster. Larimer is in FT Collins. David Carpenter,
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    Acute Care - flexible?

    It depends on how the internal medicine practice functions. Some function as consultants for complex adult medical problems and some function as FP without peds. The ANCC defines the scope as: "The...
  13. I think that the nursing compact will eventually mandate standardization for those states that participate. The main problem is that there is no enforcement of the training standards right now by...
  14. The Texas board of nursing has been pretty active in this area in the last six months. They told one of the Texas Childrens hospital that the FNPs there were outside of their scope of practice to do...
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    Liver tumor- question

    Allnurses does not give medical advice and advises you to see your health care provider (thats what the mod will say). That being said I would be happy to talk about liver lesions in general (but not...
  16. Since you trained at the home of the Physician Assistant Profession I am sure you can provide citations for the claims that you made. Let me help you. From the NC regulations: "Q: In what form may PAs...
  17. I think my views are fairly well known. I think that for many NPs the current educational model is flawed (something that some members of the state BONs agree with at least in part). I am in support...
  18. I think that all of the DNP programs are still feeling their way through this. Unfortunately some program will probably give their students a DNP with a non nursing masters or no masters as part of...
  19. So you receive an MSN after 2 years and DNP after the third? My mistake, then. Your post implied that you would not receive an MSN on your way to the DNP. David Carpenter,
  20. I'm curious how you can sit for your NP without a Masters. The ANCC requires a Masters, Post-Masters or Doctorate from a Nurse Practitioner program. If the program does not grant a Masters how are you...
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    Why not have done PA???

    From what I have seen of BSN programs I do not think that you are talking about the same depth. Remember that even if the PA student does not have a degree they still need basic sciences such as...
  22. I actually though psych and L&D were the most "real" nursing out there. Nursing has become extremely technical and there is little chance any more to do nursing interventions in many environments....
  23. The state BONs are working on a national nursing compact. The thought is that any nursing license in one state in good standing would be valid in another state. They are fairly far along for RNs. They...
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    Why not have done PA???

    I'll give the PA perspective. PAs are the generalists. Very much like the old GPs. PA training has to prepare the PA for any field of medicine. 25% of PAs work in surgery, 35% of so work in specialty...
  25. We're happy to let you guys soldier on with this one. I would also point out that the major impetus for this is coming from nursing. Particularly NONPF and the state BONs. It will not necessarily...