AbeFrohman BSN, RN

There is a lot wrong with NP and PA scope of practice in the south, particularly Alabama, which has the most restricted scope of any state in the nation for NPs. Louisiana won't allow CRNAs to practice chronic pain management, even though CMS has dec...

Glad to see so many defending PAs on here. We need to realize that PAs and NPs can do so much more together. They both have their faults and points of excellence in different places, which culminate in equal care by both. If we come together, we can ...

The current thought model on how PAs can become independent is through CAQ (certification of additional qualifications), which has only come out in the last few years and there isn't one for every specialty yet. They are written by specialty PAs and ...

Absolutely. NPs and PAs can come a lot further together than apart. As for the PA name change, it would help PAs be taken more seriously by insurance, executives, and legislators. Many specialist PAs, many of which already own their own clinic, are s...

I would do it like below. Total time=1.5 years. Didatic instruction run concurrent with rotations. Rotation Location Length  Emergency Medicine 28 weeks  Radiology/CT/Ultrasound 4 weeks  Anesthesia 4 weeks  Pediatric Emergency Medicine 4 wee...

You can also look at this file : Clinical Quality Management It will tell you a great about almost every type of provider in the Army

Note, you can be deployed as a med/surg RN, or other RN as your experience dictates, while being a military NP. This should help out. It is dated, but still holds mostly true. : Expanding the role of NPs in deployed settings Also, if you were wantin...

First, the Nurse Practitioner name has been publicized quite a bit and it would be detrimental to PR if a change were to happen. Maybe not the end of the world, but it would just add a hurdle. Secondly, NPs practice nursing. This shouldn't be demeani...

The army offers a DSc in PA studies that coincides with a EM or Ortho residency. Other branches have the residencies in place and are working to implement the DSc. This was done mainly to allow for promotion as you can get stuck in a rut if you only ...

There is nothing wrong with an associate degree PA. All associate degree PA programs require minimum 4,000 hours of prior, high level experience (nurse, emt, rt) and most are in the 10,000 range. So might say they are better than master prepared PAs....

True with the exception of why they created PAs. PAs actually existed before NPs, albeit only by a year or so. Now AAs, they were created in opposition of CRNAs. That may be where you getting confused. Also, most do not want "independent" practice (t...

Dude, as long as you have a 3.0, go for it. I made almost all B's in nursing school and I'm going to PA school after getting some HCE in critical care. I had good science GPA as well. Caspa does count nursing course, but you can it either as science ...

No CRNA keeps their CCRN certification. At least none that I have met, and I guarantee if I still had mine they would have laughed at me.

4.0 GPA average for the class? You realize how much of a statistical improbability that is right? Either half the class went to schools where they gave higher than a 4.0 (which is not the norm of universities) or EVERYONE had a 4.0. There is probably...

Here's what happened.. Admission Director:"Where's the pile of applicants that met the minimum requirements?" Secretary: "On the left side of your desk." Admission Director:"How many are we taking this year?" Secretary: "75." Admission Director: ...

about 20-25 accepted, 50-60 interview, about 100 apply. The interview process is laid back, mostly get to know you stuff. They take your various different GPAs, GRE score, years of experience, and assign them a numerical value. Subjective points are ...

Sure send me a pm anytime. Im not on here often so give me time to check in. Already sent you one on how to contact me at my email.

I attend Samford. Great program. What would you like to know?

Read the source here Jeff Susman, MD Editor-in-Chief [email protected] It is time--time to abandon our damagingly divisive, politically Pyrrhic, and ultimately unsustainable struggle with advanced practice nurses (APNs). I urge my fellow family physici...

I actually did it with their curriculum for a while. All A's and one B, but I'm not going to say it was easy. I've known others to do it as well, but most go part time with either their job or schooling.

Backscatter, since you take physician word as gospel, here are some quotes for you In fact, a highly respected anesthesiologist, R.K. Stoelting, MD wrote the following in the December 1996 issue of the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia: "... Unchallen...

I suppose you could go shadow and just have the dantrolene ready to find out! Honestly, I agree with wtb. Consult the expert.

What state is this and could you provide a source for this law against FNPs in ERs please?

I would say that attitude is true of staff nurses in general.

I have to agree with nomad. Technically speaking an FNP can do what a NNP does. It would be an uphill battle to be able to do procedures like circumcision, but if you found someone willing to train you it could legally be done in most states.