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  1. Basically what you need to know is that there are two hearts-- the right heart, which pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs to get oxygenated, and then the left heart which pumps oxygenated blood to...
  2. I Need Advice - MD Not Signing Order

    From what I can gather from the CRNA's post, the physician isn't signing off on the order because he didn't order it. On top of that, you pushed a potentially dangerous amount of dilaudid and there is...
  3. Elevated ALT, AST and ALP- acute renal failure?

    His elevated LFT's may definitely not be d/t an alcohol insult; oftentimes with alcoholic liver injury the AST/ALT ratio is going to be elevated whereas in other actue liver injury the AST/ALT is...
  4. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    Sorry, you asked if I needed an education-- I suppose I misunderstood. I didn't realize that you meant a nursing education. I'm studying for an MD. This is why I'm so opposed to NPs/DNP's managing...
  5. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    I'm getting mine, thanks, just like you're receiving yours. I don't care if the nurses want to call themselves "doctor" so long as they don't do it in front of the patients. The difference between the...
  6. DNP's failing the test????

    So here's where you're kind of wrong-- when nurses start practicing medicine, this tends to grab the Board of Medicine's attention because you didn't jump through the hoops that you were supposed to,...
  7. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    Nah, her claims are just backed by over a decade of experience as an NP and a nurse-- how many years have you been an NP and an RN? And how, pray tell, is the DNP degree designed to aid nurses...
  8. Kind of backfired on Ms. Mundinger there, didn't
  9. you're right, i used an anecdote instead of quoting a nursing study measuring patient satisfaction rates over a short period of time comparing np's vs. residents treating patients in an oupatient...
  10. DNP's failing the test????

    Something tells me that exam was a little watered down from Step 3 USMLE. Regardless, this is not an exam that should be difficult to pass considering the vast clinical experience that NP's have over...
  11. okay, to imply that md's don't examine patients and neglect them and that np's do is just unfair. i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that md's tend to carry a heavier load of pts. while it's...
  12. Again, the studies that have been done have been extremely biased and poorly done. Secondly, it's not up to anyone to prove that NP's, when completely autonomous treating pts with complicated...
  13. That may be true, but it's not up to you either. It's up the each state to decide whether or not the DNP/nurse with a PhD can call herself a "dr" in a clinical
  14. Not a lost med student-- I know the confusion of the role of nurses, NP's, PA's, physicians, CNA's, and cafeteria workers because I've been there. When you have a chronically ill grandfather who you...
  15. Are you kidding me? I get confused as to the roles of who is the physician and who isn't in the hospital, and I'm a med student. It'ts fricking hard, and I can only imagine that if you're in bed,...
  16. That residency/apprenticeship that you speak of is a joke-- the money you make during that time is laughable. It comes down to like, what, $1.13 per hour? Yeah, we're lucky. As for NP's receiving...
  17. You're right. Becoming a physician is a piece of cake-- what was I thinking? What, four years of clown school with a 1.0 gpa, and that easy breezy mcat, waltzing through the admissions comittees of...
  18. You got me; I left out the part where PA's cannot work independently of a physician because they fall under the board of medicine, but in some states NP's can because they have managed to squeak by...
  19. Look, you can change the name, but the fact of the matter is DNP's are still "mid-levels" with a scope of practice that is similar/equivalent to PA's. Switching the title and adding a few courses in...
  20. Evil Doctors

    No, I've found the vast majority of doctors that I've worked with to care a lot about their patients-- if they didn't, there's no way I would have gone into medicine. Likewise, I've found that the...
  21. TB Exposure

    If you have had exposure to someone with active TB at work, I think the wise thing to do would be to contact your employee health services. If it was at home, you probably want to talk to your doctor....
  22. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    I believe that IMO= in my opinion. Why would a person opt for a DNP if an MD could be completed in the same amount of time? There is no way an MD can be completed in the same amount of time. If I'm...
  23. Consider going for MD?

    If you want to be an MD, than go to medical school, but do NOT go through that Samoa program. There is no short cut to becoming a physician and if you completed that program, all you would have at the...
  24. You've got to be kidding me. Physicians are "too scientific?" As a patient, I would want my provider to be as scientific as possible-- I want the options for my care that he/she presents to me to be...
  25. Hi Mike, Congratulations on finishing your first year of nursing school-- that's awesome. So when you say that "It has been shown in numerous studies that NP's provide care that is equivalent or...