mountainaireNP

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1. Canned from the pill mill...I mean, pain clinic. Starting my own clinic, need advice!

   mountainaireNP replied to mountainaireNP's topic in Advanced Practice

   Got my NPI number, but I understand I need numbers for Medicare and Medicaid as well. The office space I hope to get is in a fairly large town and is on the 3rd busiest street in the city, next to a...

2. Canned from the pill mill...I mean, pain clinic. Starting my own clinic, need advice!

   mountainaireNP replied to mountainaireNP's topic in Advanced Practice

   I'm learning a bit here and there. From what I'm understanding,m I can get unemployment, which I think would help me buy some time while I get the clinic set up. I also hear that a lot of doctors...

3. Canned from the pill mill...I mean, pain clinic. Starting my own clinic, need advice!

   mountainaireNP posted a topic in Advanced Practice

   I'm relieved, actually. I was fed up with the drama and poor oversight. I was assured it wasn't my fault, but the bottom line was they had a PA with a lot more experience. They assured me they loved...

4. Meanwhile at the pain clinic...(is it really worth it?!)

   mountainaireNP posted a topic in Advanced Practice

   I've been there about a year. Day in and day out it's altered pee (we had started having someone go to the bathroom with them but we were losing too many people so the owners had us stop doing that.)...

5. Should this be grounds for dismissal? (from the pain clinic)

   mountainaireNP replied to mountainaireNP's topic in Advanced Practice

   So...BostonFNP would you let it slide or tell her to pound sand? Yes, the old script should have been exchanged for the new script, but she knew full well she should not have filled that Percocet,...

6. Should this be grounds for dismissal? (from the pain clinic)

   mountainaireNP posted a topic in Advanced Practice

   Just a background before my question...I am the only provider for this pain clinic where I work. One day I had to be out of town so they brought in a substitute who turned out to be absolutrely...

7. Fed Up with Pain Management

   mountainaireNP replied to mountainaireNP's topic in Advanced Practice

   We dismissed a couple more today. So, we should dismiss them after the first offense of having no metabolites? This is a new pan clinic with new staff and a medical director who isn't as involved as...

8. Fed Up with Pain Management

   mountainaireNP posted a topic in Advanced Practice

   I guess that's too bad for me, though, I can't afford to quit. The thing is, we do drug screens at each visit, and send the samples off for analysis. A large number of patients have no noroxycodone in...

9. Help me not be cynical

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

   There would be a riot here if we started telling people to meditate for their pain or take Naprosyn. I agree the movement should be away from opioids, I just don't want to be around here to see it....

10. Help me not be cynical

    mountainaireNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In the two weeks I've worked at the pain clinic I've come across a lot of dishonest patients, we've turned patients away after running criminal background checks that show recent trouble with the law...

11. My first job in a pain clinic....HELP

    mountainaireNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    After two long years I finally found a job in a pain clinic. The pay is good but there is so much I'm ashamed to say I don't know. I'm constantly trying to look things up. We've had a few instances of...

12. Please Wish Me Luck

    mountainaireNP posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Never heard a peep out of the hospital in South Carolina, and it's been a week. I think I can safely assume it's a no go. I have two interviews tomorrow, both with the State of Tennessee in the health...

13. How do you approach parents who refuse pediatric vaccines?

    mountainaireNP replied to Pachinko's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Vaccines seem to be overused. Just because mainstream pharma company sponsored literature suggests turning children into pin cushions doesn''t necessarily mean it's the best way. The thing to do when...

14. Adult NP seeing kids

    mountainaireNP replied to cruisin_woodward's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I know how you feel about going back to school. As an adult NP myself with ridiculous student loan debt the thought of going back to school makes me cringe nut that's exactly what I'm having to do, as...

15. Anxiety over in-person job interview

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

    Thanks for the advice. No, I haven't done any mock interviews. It's too late for this one, maybe I could do it in the future. I have been getting professional help for many years and take medication....