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Re: starting an indie practice as FNP, specifically with regard to the supervising MD and our scope of practice requirements... If we plan to treat the whole family, is an Internist per se adequate from a medicolegal standpoint or is the only good or...

point well taken pro-student I still see this is a challenge that there must be a solution for... Otherwise all the FNP-owned clinics are "at risk". I was asking originally if anyone had a solution or an answer to this challenge, but it seems like it...

Sometimes "extra training in Dermatology" will mean an extensive amount of continuing education. He/She might have a pretty impressive background in derm. one never knows unless one asks. -K

our BON states that in FNP collaborative practice, the MD must have "experience in, or specialty in the area", so I would imagine most internists would have "experience in" Family Practice areas. Of course there is a dearth of Family Practice BC MD's...

Understood, thanks. In TN we have full prescriptive priveleges but bill have to contact BON re: above. ..

yes, they are.

your post is greatly entertaining. please do not go into this field. -K

most of the people I know recently who have commented that it will be required to be a DNP to practice tend to have been incdoctrinated by the Deans of their NP programs. This is a racket on the part of the schools. I am not saying it will not be tru...

The salary may be brought up at the end of the second interview if it is not brought up first by the interviewer. This is pretty customary. It's also fair in some occasions to let them know up front what your salary requirements are, and not vise ver...

this is one of the most peculiar threads

I want to inquire, from those who work in this field and have real business experience re: RNFA: Can an NP work (in some states? all?) as an RNFA and what is the common practice for billing and employment? Let me clarify. I am an FNP student, graduat...

I am interested in learning more about the experiences of an NP in a neurosurgery group/field. What are your duties, specifically? Patient load? Clinic? Hospital? Comfort level? Pay? Background? There is not much discussion about this, but I know s...

She is from a small town? How many chromosomes is this one toting? How flinstonian. -k

I agree with the idea that you take the plunge. As an ICU nurse, you'll be taking the plunge every day. If you are confident that you can learn the things you have to learn, take criticism well, and care about the patient, you'll be fine. I starte...

This is amateur night. Get it cleared up and move on.

She sounds like a sociopathic sort of person. Constantly causing problems and is known for being an angry, unhappy, weird person. I work with a couple of these. One of them is just a problem child. Once she was fired and when she was rehired, no ...

I've been reading the PA vs NP threads and what a heated debate!! Time for something less serious. Does anyone agree that it's such an assett to not have to purchase expensive clothes and launder/dry clean them and replace them? This is especially ...

you get a uniform allowance for what kind of job?

anyone notice in nursing textbooks where they refer to nurses as she or her, as in "the nurse should then tie a touniquet around the patients medulla oblongata and use her syringe to..." or "nurse should be professional and curteous when she is worki...

Yes we've started this as well. 110 doesn't sound like a reasonable place to start a drip that could get them potentially stuck in the ICU longer, but I suppose if the data supports it... We do it primarily as part of a sepsis protocol, but it does ...

I have a house, and a mortgage! I am considering applying for graduate school and I imagine I will likely sell my home and move with my wife into an apartment to get through school with the least debt and hardship or obligation on the other end, not...

My question is what tracks are there for nurse anesthesia? The more I think about my career prospects, the more I wonder if obtaining a generic masters in nursing, or an acute care nurse prac. degree and then consider a post-graduate certificate in ...