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    Nursing Model vs Medical Model (again!)

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

    This is similar to what I do. The thing that bugs me is that hospitals are increasingly taking any decision making away from bedside nurses. If I write and order for Percocent 5/325 1-2 Q4-6 PRN PO...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    i can't speak to nursing theory and the like, but the general theory of medical education is that there is set of procedures in which all physicians are trained. this set includes complaint, history,...
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    'PA anesthetist'?

    core0 replied to HillaryC's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    There are a few PAs doing anesthesia. Most of these were trained before the anesthesia assistant existed. Other jobs in anesthesia include pre and post op assessment as well as critical care...
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    NP Licenses and Liability

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

    You would not be working as a paramedic in this case. You would be working as a PA that is doing prehospital medicine. You would have the full scope of practice for a PA. Pridemark uses PAs in this...
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    Advice from acute/critical care NP's

    core0 replied to CAPRN77's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    http://main.uab.edu/sites/nursing/98239/ Not sure about the ACNP/RNFA program but their surgical PA program is very well regarded. I thought there was a PNP/ACNP program on the east coast but I can't...
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    NP Licenses and Liability

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

    Another point on this is the hospital may not care about the added liability. For a small business a 10% increase in liability is pretty big. For a hospital it may not be noticeable. There are quite a...
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    NP Licenses and Liability

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

    In Colorado Paramedics are licensed under the BOM. You cannot hold two active medical licenses here. That being said I can ride as a PA and do everything and more that I did as a Paramedic as long as...
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    NP Licenses and Liability

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

    My understanding is that even if you are working in the CNA role you are still held to the highest standard of training. It is an artifact of nursing that you have what is essentially two licenses. In...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    the interesting thing is that depending on previous experience nps and pas may start at radically different levels. however, after about two years there is very little difference in practice patterns....
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    NP Licenses and Liability

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

    You are held to the scope of your highest certification. If an NP went to work as a CNA (to use an extreme example) then they would still be held to the standard of a NP. Since NP's diagnose and treat...
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    What's the proper way to address an NP?

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

    Mr? David Carpenter,
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    bring those things up early in the contract process. what employers hate is a rolling list of demands. you have to look at the total compensation of the package. i took my current job with an offer of...
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    Chest X-Ray for TB

    core0 replied to ghaleon128's topic in General Nursing

    You don't usually have to precert a CXR so I doubt that an insurance company would notice. You could just put down R/O TB as the reason. The concern here is that this only looks for active pulmonary...
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    Calling all transplant nurses!!!

    core0 replied to EGKB's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    I will give you a perspective from a non nurse that works with transplant nurses every day. To be a good transplant nurse you have to be a good nurse. Most of the transplant nurses I work with have a...
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    Hepatitis B (+) for Dependent

    core0 replied to canutoluna's topic in International Nursing

    From the CDC: I am applying for immigration to the United States. My HBsAg test was positive. Will this affect my application? No. Testing positive for HBsAg should not affect your application for...
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    A little concerned about my future (to be a NNP)

    core0 replied to justme1972's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    To be honest most pharmacology is rote memorization. It does help to understand chemistry and biochemistry when puzzling out drug interactions. I had to take organic chemistry and the only time that...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    i have looked at this extensively and while the physicians i work with support me completely, it would be inappropriate for me to use this is clinical practice. this misrepresents what i am. it is...
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    Question Southern Jersey/Pennsylvania PA/NP Rx and future??

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

    New Jersey doesn't look bad from an NP standpoint. Pretty much the same for PA. For an east coast area not too bad whichever way you go. Pennsylvania on the other hand is another matter. This has the...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The PAs have an organization. It is called the AAPA http://www.aapa.org/ They also have a credentialling organization called the NCCPA http://www.nccpa.net/ The have a credentialling organization for...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Healthcare is a dinosaur because it is ultimately about patient safety. You can propose your new model and try it out. A few hundred bodies later you find out you are wrong. If anything there has been...
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    core0 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    This model has existed for 40 years as the physician assistant model. Historically it has been a condensed form of the the physician training model with emphasis on producing a generalized medical...
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    Why do doctors get to play by different rules?

    core0 replied to asilmk's topic in General Nursing

    You have to know the guy. Very driven, very technically proficent. Not to socially adept. He got a call and leaped out of bed and came in. At least he was wearing boxers. David Carpenter,
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    Why do doctors get to play by different rules?

    core0 replied to asilmk's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend in CT surgery. One night his doc rushed in for an emergency. He was standing at the bedside when the staff noticed he wasn't wearing any pants. David Carpenter,
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    Ideas for finding clinical sites.

    core0 replied to BChapp3182's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I guess I don't understand. Is the program director the only one that arranges clinicals? Part of having a program should be having sufficent faculty and resources to weather the loss of one or even...
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    Why do doctors get to play by different rules?

    core0 replied to asilmk's topic in General Nursing

    There are two parts to this. One is that you are an employee of the hospital and under hospital policies and the MD is not. You have to adhere to the hospital dress code etc. On the other hand from a...