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  1. DNP vs MD

    mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

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

  2. DNP vs MD

    mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    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...

  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...

  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

  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...

  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...

  7. DNP vs MD

    mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

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

  8. DNP vs MD

    mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    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...

  9. DNP vs MD

    mige replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    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...

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

    mige replied to KSU-SN's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  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...

  12. Article on proposed Kendall Regional Trauma Center

    mige replied to phosphorus's topic in Florida Nursing

    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...

  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

  14. Hospital Romances

    mige replied to 2bnursejacksonrn's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  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...

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

    mige replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I was the person that asked, and the reason why is that GI docs are Internal Medicine specialist NOT surgical doctors, therefore they cannot perform any type of surgical procedure. The closest to a...

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

    mige replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    what type of abdominal surgery was the GI doc

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

    mige replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    strange story. 1st a GI doc doing abdominal surgery??? and 2nd a family angry because the surgery took long??? If I was a family member of a patient which the surgery took long I wouldnt be angry, in...

  19. ethical dilemma with a DNR last night

    mige replied to flightnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    you can thank the judicial system for this

  20. What is a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice?

    mige replied to DNAP2b's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The DNP is another glorify easy degree, its purpose was to make/prepare better clinical nurses but if you look at the curriculum of almost all DNP programs you wont find more than 2 classes that...

  21. And I continue my rant of MAs pretending to be nurses..

    mige replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    dont worry people, this was seen coming a long time ago. Nurses will replace primary care doctors which are only gonna go for specialize medicine, MA's will replace nurses and anyone will replace...

  22. Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    mige replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Im sorry but you might have taken some classes similar to med school but in no way are you prepare to deal with this day in and day out. Sure, a DC might now what's an abnormal lab value but what to...

  23. DNP's taking certification exam similar to USMLE by 2012?

    mige replied to SteveNNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This shouldnt be an excuse not to take the step 3. My wife is a surgical resident and she has to take Step 3 even though is 60-70% internal medicine with pediatrics/OB-GYN and surgery. She hasnt had...