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  1. Bsn degree vs. Physician assistant certification/licensure??

    TakeBack replied to KAzurinM.Twin1's topic in General Nursing

    2yrs old, NP vs PA salary

  2. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Noted... You can tell us better than others how far this is carried by AAPA/ARCPA.... Already on the APPAP email chain, the first two are well agreeg upon (from the membership at

  3. A personal NP vs PA debate

    TakeBack replied to Renny03's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't have the numbers on that. This is a thread we keep at PA Forum listing schools which Require, Encourage, or Don't Require HCE (list courtesy of Dave Carpenter PA-C)...

  4. A personal NP vs PA debate

    TakeBack replied to Renny03's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Whoa, where did you get this nugget! Are you aware of the clinical experience requirements for PA school? While the mandatory hours have declined as an average (as a function of the explosion in the...

  5. A personal NP vs PA debate

    TakeBack replied to Renny03's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's not your opinion, its fact- PAs are trained in the medical model. As a PA, I can tell you that dependence is the nature of the practice relationship, not the Evaluation and Management process. I...

  6. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    They have one already, at Baylor, a DHSc. There are non clinical doctorates for PAs as well (education), and I just read that Wake Forest is developing a PhD track. The intent of the Baylor program,...

  7. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would hope that this forum is welcoming to all viewpoints, even those that appear oppositional from some. My intent with the OP was NOT to state that NPs provide inferior care, but to draw out what...

  8. QTC

    TakeBack replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

    It's average. For nuts and bolts purposes, if the QT is going up or over 500, it needs to be

  9. chest tube removal

    TakeBack replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Some pts have a purse string to close the wound. Those without should heal in a week or two. An open wound is set up for infection. The presence of infectious signs- rubor (erythema), tumor...

  10. QTC

    TakeBack replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

    The QT interval is the time between ventricular depolarization and repolarization. Drugs (in particular antiarrhythmics) can prolong the QT interval. The longer the interval gets, the higher the risk...

  11. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I can't speak for the ACC, are they making claims that "PA's (MD's) offer superior care by virtue of the medical model than that of combining the nursing and medical model that NPs use"? I have seen...

  12. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Ha, I guess you'd have to take my word for it but I'm certainly not anti nurse. I'm a member at American College of Clincians and think that there is more to gain from collaboration than division;...

  13. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sarcasm not lost on me. May I ask- when you "explain the differences between the nursing and medical modle (sp)", what do you say? What is the NP explanation of the difference? Does a non NP in a FP...

  14. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have to plead some ignorance here, but what is the nursing model? In relation to patient care (meaning not nurse education/leadership/etc)....NPs practice nursing, not medicine. You're outside the...

  15. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Agree!

  16. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I appreciate all these responses. I don't question the unique role that nursing plays in patient care. As a PA who practices the majority of my time in critical care, nurses are my interface with...

  17. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Why

  18. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I agree that good and bad providers pervade medicine, but repsectfully decline the notion that patient-oriented care is specific or even significantly more common in NPs. I wonder if there are pt...

  19. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And I certainly don't see any PAs (and likely a good group of MDs/DOs) arguing against the team apporach. Physicians still must consult amongst each other. PAs/NPs do as well, whether referring to...

  20. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think this is where the bias- against providers trained in the medical model- comes into place. Your first paragraph reads to me that PAs/MDs ARE simply handing the script from the doorway and out...

  21. Don't Hate Me, All....

    TakeBack replied to TakeBack's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm not so sure. If PAs can provide equivalent care to MDs/DOs- which there is evidence to support that I've seen for diabetic populations- then how do we prove that their efficacy (how "far" they...

  22. Question regarding dosing of Cardizem drip vs Cardene drip

    TakeBack replied to billythekid's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Nicardipine functions mainly on the vascular smooth muscle. This class has been shown to have some EP effects on the SAN and AVN but not that is clinically significant at the doses used for...

  23. Blanching arterial line???

    TakeBack replied to vrturner's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Curious if you're in CT surg; there's some evidence that the high heparin doses intraop cause false positive antiplatelet antibodies.....are you seeing HIT or

  24. afib/bundle branch block

    TakeBack replied to INnurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Amio is OK for short term, in hospital dosing. Any immediate pulmonary effect during administration is from an immune reaction, not pulmonary fibrosis. I wouldn't discharge someone on maintenance amio...

  25. Most Common CV-ICU Surgical Procedures

    TakeBack replied to lpn2crna1day's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    The Bojar manual http://www.amazon.ca/Manual-Perioperative-Adult-Cardiac-Surgery/dp/1405104392 is a good reference. It's not a complete ground level review but it gives a description of the major...