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1. DNP vs MD

   mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   just as nurses dont like medical assistants to be called nurses around the office. The same exact thing. Is human nature to defend your own.

2. DNP vs MD

   mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   how can you say is a professional degree along the same way as an MD but then you say the role for the DNP has not been clearly define? How can you say something looks like another thing when you dont even know how your thing looks???

3. Are nurses smarter than resident physicians?

   mige replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in General Nursing

   as a physician we dont know ALL the medications. Even as an atteding now I dont know ALL the medications and their doses. I had a nurse asked me 1-2 weeks ago what X medication did and I honestly told her: I dont know but I will get back to you in ...

4. Missed diagnosis - just a vent

   mige replied to Nascar nurse's topic in General Nursing

   funny that she was seen by 2 nurses in teh ED, an MD and the technician read the US as negative.

5. Over riding a resident?

   mige replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

   the original poster dissapeared faster than george bush when obama took office after all the responses. But in all seriousness, never downplay chest pain. You might disagree with the orders but for the safety of the patient go ahead and do them and...

6. Over riding a resident?

   mige replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot believe that you call the senior resident to change the orders just because you felt they were not 'stat" worthy and also because it was close to your shift change. Imagine if those troponins would have come positive with EKG changes? I can...

7. DNP vs MD

   mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   god selected MD's? wow, I never received that memo!!!

8. DNP vs MD

   mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   And regarding the point of NP's satisfaction between patient is higher vs physicians is interesting. How much time does a NP has to see each patient? what is their patient load per day? I remember in my 3rd year of Internal Medicine residency traini...

9. DNP vs MD

   mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   so wrong in so many ways. Its call been worried about patient care. When you see that the DNP movement has not establish a curriculum which all DNP schools are going to follow and you also see that majority of DNP schools offer online education the...

10. screaming doctors....how can we handle them?

    mige replied to KSU-SN's topic in Relations

    Do as I did at my hospital. I was an internal medicine resident, I got yelled by a young nurse in the nurse station for a couple of seconds and it was so loud that other nurses came out of pt rooms to see what was happening. I reported her. Next tim...

11. RN On-call car plates/sign on cars

    mige replied to RelloydRN's topic in General Nursing

    when i was in the icu one of the attendings there who lived >45 minutes from the hospital used to stay in house to help the interns/residents when he was the attending on call. Now that Im looking for a job one of the places that gave me a "sample...

12. Article on proposed Kendall Regional Trauma Center

    mige replied to phosphorus's topic in Florida

    As a future physician that will be working at Kendall Regional Medical Center I agree with the propose establishment of a trauma center. As the report states traffic is pretty heavy in some areas of kendall making it very difficult sometimes for peo...

13. Seasoned nurses- your thoughts please

    mige replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    go with what you think happened, pt swallowing pills ok, no signs of aspiration.

14. Hospital Romances

    mige replied to 2bnursejacksonrn's topic in Relations

    or real medicine, especially residency training. I dont have that much time at work to be talking to my fellow interns/residents about their personal problems and we dont hang out with the attendings.

15. A physican where I work called a patient a "FAT PIG!"

    mige replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    we dont know the entire story. we know the family mas mad/angry but we dont know what they told the doctor. Might have been something not offensive to the doctor but it could have been. We saw the second punch of the fight, people always miss the f...