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Well, Golden Girl. I agree with everything you said, You'll have to read the previous posts and take in context my above sentence. It often asserted that patient "happiness" is a measure of practitioner quality. They aren't related. At all. They shou...

quite agreed. How are PA and NP schools different?

Wait, so PA school is far more intense, but the training is less?

Really? All the nursing associations are gathering the data? And it's all awesome? I had no idea! Studies on noninferiority when dealing with proteinuria are excellent. But lets have a study on how many of these protenuria patients were actually pati...

and I'm not a nurse. I'm a PA

On what do these agencies make these recommendations? Either way, we shall see.

Look, sorry that my posts seem so inflammatory, I apologize for that. If you'll read the post previous to the one where I talk about nursing education it is in reply to the idea that NP's are "better" than PA's because of the nursing education they r...

Medicine has EVERYTHING to do with how knowledgeable you are and NOTHING to do with how nice you are. It's just good to be nice as well. As far as the comment above about NP vs PA? You can come out of training as either an NP, PA, or MD and be a moro...

Oh, and I don't think there are ANY NP's in "solo" practice anywhere. Hospital bylaws do not allow it.

Sesquatch: Calling out sepsis is not a diagnosis. Learning the difference between the manifestations of sepsis and addisonian crisis, or myxedema coma is diagnosis. Understanding the significance of proteinuria which could be anything from multiple m...

Problem is nursing has nothing to do with medicine. At least not in the sense of treating and diagnosing, which is what you are supposed to be doing as an NP or PA. Also, PA's are taught treatment, I'm not sure how you separate diagnosis/rx from trea...

MBREAZ I call strawman on my post, The provider in my example was not lying, I said his actions were not malicious, perhaps he did not know, or he forgot for that patient to start appropriate therapy, Either way, you prove my point you admitted that ...

MBREAZ, you still haven't offered a rebuttal to this post of mine, I would really like to hear your thoughts: not true. definitely not true. I don't get how you believe that. If you are nice to a diabetic patient who has protenuria on his dipstick, a...

antiquated notions like education?

I would like to know what hospital this is in.

not true. definitely not true. I don't get how you believe that. If you are nice to a diabetic patient who has protenuria on his dipstick, and you never put him on an ACE-I or ARB. A few years later he enters into renal failure that could have been p...

Sorry, I think I misread your post. By "practicing solo" I mean operating independently of a physician. As in they are admitting/rounding on their own patients, or working in an ICU without an MD cosigning orders. Basically that they don't have any c...

um, you could answer the question, do you have any idea. I'm asking cuz I want to know, please dispense with the 'tude dude. thanks.

yeah, it's happening, but I don't understand, what do you mean by solo? All the hospitals I've worked in have bylaws requiring physician oversight? They have no MD's around?

oh, and quickly, to clarify, when I admit that there are some PA's pushing the same independence agenda as NP's I'm assuming you're right based on statistics and the fact that our profession toyed with the idea of a doctoral degree. I've never actual...

um, quick thing, PA school and NP school never cross paths, as one poster mentioned, the other thing is that you should be careful with this "NP's have their own license thing" you will never see a hospital based NP working solo, always under supervi...

Whoah, I missed that the first go around... PA training is inferior? What do you use to claim that? I think you ought to check your curriculum against ours. Now I'll admit, we don't have all those fancy patient satisfaction courses and communications...

But WOWZA, if the patient is happy, doesn't that mean I did a good job!??? I don't understand.... You're saying that if I do something wrong, and the patient is happy, I'm still wrong? Are you sure? all my communication classes didn't prepare me to a...

Ah, so you've discovered the plot have you? No sir, my profession nearly followed in the same foolish footsteps with the whole doctoral degree. Luckily wiser heads prevailed and it has not become mainstream as of yet. No, my profession seems to close...