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    Need Malpractice Insurance Info

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

    Cases can be pursued much longer than that depending on the state. Cases concerning minors can be pursued for a number of years after the patient turns 18. The answer to wether you need a tail depends...
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    Can NPs practice with surgeons?

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

    I was under the impression that they could only see acute and critically ill patients. The local program here is a ANP/ACNP program. The instructors are stating that outpatient work is outside the...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    Not really germane to the discussion (as is much of the last 25 pages) but here is a good article on NP billing. Page 5. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/422935_5 David Carpenter,
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    First of all welcome to all nurses.com. The American College of Nurse Practitioners and the ANA define independent practice as practice that requires no participation from a physician. There are 8...
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    Can NPs practice with surgeons?

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

    The problem with this is that it does not meet the market needs. I will be the first to admit that most surgeons do not understand the use of NPP's. Also an academic setting is different from a...
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    Can NPs practice with surgeons?

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

    I thought the RNFA was a title and the CRNFA was the certification. Can you call yourself an RNFA without being certified? Will hospitals accept the class alone without being eligible for the...
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    Can NPs practice with surgeons?

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

    I would be very careful with RNFA courses. A lot of them are a lot of money for not much value. The other point is that you still have to get your hours in the OR before you can get your RNFA. You...
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    CRNA school without a BSN

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

    This is from Colorado: © On and after July 1, 2008, the requirements for inclusion in the advanced practice registry shall include the successful completion of a graduate degree in the appropriate...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    i would agree that nonpf doesn't want poor grads. but despite multiple state demands that np's get more pharmacology training they have not increased the training time for pharmacology. there is a...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    part of the confusion is the way the panre is graded. each question is assigned a difficulty and the output is expressed as a score. the passing score is then assigned each year as a cutoff. they use...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    Well I will say that every profession is defined by a bell curve. The test tries to measure clinical competency, it does not gaurantee competency. I am sure we all know providers (MD, PA, NP) that...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    I have heard that in the past NP's could take the PA exam as could informally trained PA's. However that has not happened for at least 25 years and possible more. The exam has dramatically changed in...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    38% of PA's are in primary care. Another 10% are in Emergency medicine. So about half are in a position where they deal with general medical problems every day. 25% are in surgery and they have the...
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    CRNA school without a BSN

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

    Just out of curiousity how does this work in states that require a Master's degree in Nursing to work as an APN? If I am reading this right you get a non nursing masters or do you get a MSN also as...
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    Help! Did I screw myself?

    core0 replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sometimes you have to pick your fights. I had the same problem in PA school. One of our instructors hadn't touched a patient in 10 years. The lecture was straight out of the book (as written in 1980)....
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    Actually the pass rate is about 91%. Good not perfect. The PANRE is validated against practice standards and the test questions reflect this. There was a Pathway II which was a self paced test which...
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    Only notionally. Once the standard care arrangement is set there is no further physician involvement. On the other hand physician involvement is mandated when prescriptive authority is involved....
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

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

    Yes you can open your own practice as long as you don't need to prescribe or see medicare patients. David Carpenter,
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    Help! Did I screw myself?

    core0 replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well part of graduate school is learning how to write in a professional format. Something that unfortunately is not taught in undergraduate to any great extent. That being said, APA is a very loose...
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    Planning Clinical Experiences: ACNPs

    core0 replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If you are considering working for a hospitalist group, pulmonary and cardiac are going to be a big part of your practice. Endocrine is also helpful. Consider an intensivist rotation or pulmonary/CC...
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    Can nurses suture?

    core0 replied to amanda sue's topic in General Nursing

    CNM's are non physician providers under medicare guidelines for providers and can suture. As far as I know any NPP can suture (and bill for it). The question (as I interpret it) was can RN's (or...
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    Can nurses suture?

    core0 replied to amanda sue's topic in General Nursing

    well i learned something. i asked a gentleman who is considered the billing guru for pa's. this was his answer: pas, nps, rns and other office staff (medical assistant) may provide services "incident...
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    Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    core0 replied to sarajasmine's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like my patient that confused her Alleve with her Tylenol. After three days at 2 Q4-6 hours her stool turned black. She looked this up on the internet and it said this was "bad". She went to...
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    Can nurses suture?

    core0 replied to amanda sue's topic in General Nursing

    If i read the incident to rules they only apply to NPP's. For medicare rules this is NP, CNM, PA and CNS. So if you have an RN do the procedure and bill incident to then that is not within the rules....
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    Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    core0 replied to sarajasmine's topic in General Nursing

    In our office the nurses are nurses and the MA's are MA's. Helps that we have a CNO. We have 9 MA's and 30 or so nurses. MA's and RN's have completely different skill sets. My life would suck without...