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I completed my DNP while working full time as a hospitalist. In fact, I passed boards and signed my current position's contract the same month I started my DNP. Three years and a few months later, I am still a hospitalist, and I have a terminal degr...

Thank you very much. You are helping my literature review. I had some of these already, actually. /curtsies /flounces away tripping over feather boa.

I know for a fact that many immigrants fear this and put off seeking treatment . It's unfortunate and not right.

Our bonuses are awarded quarterly and given the first month of the quarter following the measured term.

The average in my area of the grand strand is 85k to 90k a year in clinics but I'm at 120k as a hospitalist.

Hyperbole and a Half: The Party

I love that.

I like saying the whole words for ERCP Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatoscopy

I'm sensitive to that one because in show choir this was verboten. In fact, to fix that we were instructed to put the t at the beginning of the next word "I can't leeeve, I living is withow tyou."

So much is this a pet peeve of mine that I want to slap the offenders, but alas, there are too many.

my region says growin' for Groin. drives me bonkers.

Did you read the one about the Pa-arp?

Awe, this thread is smashing! Its really making me laff.

Use up to date, pocket hospital medicine, and jodpialisy T handbook.

They see each patient.

I am grateful that my employer prefers family nurse practitioners. However I would love to have the additional knowledge that the acute Care Program would have provided. When I have another year of practice under my belt I am considering enrolling in...

So Inpatient services can be billed for split/shared services. But not critical care or procedures.

I might be using the wrong phrase. Split services are billable and reimbursed. Is that your understanding? The way it was explained to me is that 100% reimbursement occurs this way but only 85% if only I Bill. Isn't that incidence to? Shared/Split Se...

I am loving my job and role. We are a small community hospital of just over 200 beds. My shifts are either 10 hours where I round on patients until lunch then go to ED for admits. Or 12 hours where I'm the point person for admits and consults. My col...

I teased my husband in the past that I would haunt him. But now that I've lost loved ones that jab lost its impact. I have since told him that if I predecease him to use my remains in a horticultural manner, like embedded in a plant. He said it soun...

But my APA prowess will cure you (M.A., July 22, 2017, personal conversation).

This is state dependent, usually. I am in SC and I am required to have a collaborative physician within 45min. Also, if the hospitalists want to get full reimbursement, they sign off each admission, round, consult, and discharge (incidence-to billin...

All of that! I really like putting the puzzle pieces together. And boy did I have ample opportunity today. Several really sick critical patients through the ED I admitted on our hospitalist service today. I leaned on and learned from my peers/colle...

AMEN! I feel that way as well. I am still pinching myself for what a great team I have.

There are regulations governing admitting orders so their signature is necessary. Other things I have mixed reception. Some are very hands-off and encourage my work, some treat me like a resident and guide me through the critical thinking (I'm new), ...