RockMay

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1. Online Direct Entry MSN, PA, or Nurse Anesthesist

   RockMay replied to AC7941's topic in Online Distance Learning

   I'd like to suggest that prior to or considering becoming a PA you learn the correct name of the

2. Happy with your credentials?

   RockMay replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Majority of MSN to DNP programs require no additional clinicals whatsoever (as they do not provide additional skills, just additional

3. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   LOLnope!

4. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   My cynicism of NP education, practice, and existence is due to the complete lack of education, lack of preparation for practice practice, and insistence that the NP job should not exist as it clearly...

5. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   You have an interesting albeit incorrect way of presenting

6. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Correct. PAs have more education which is superior in depth and quality to that of NP education. Incorrect. The title is Physician Assistant. There is no possessive after physician. Incorrect. PAs...

7. Stop the preceptor madness!

   RockMay replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   All about the money. IMHO I can't understand how a school can ever be given or maintain accreditation when they literally throw their students to the wolves with finding

8. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   They might require an "intro to organic chemistry" or "principals of organic chemistry" but those are not true orgo 1 and orgo 2 courses. Those of us who took actual orgo 1 and 2 look on those baby...

9. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   How many NP programs require two semesters of orgo

10. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

    RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    How many NPs took Orgo Chem 1 and 2? How many who tried actually

11. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's a story I personally know and there is no link. The case was settled out of court as most malpractice cases are. You speak about a hope to "improve NP education" but you fail to see that the...

12. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I personally know a recent horror story of an NP who went to an all online NP program who killed a patient by failing to recognize this patient was having an MI. She was working in the ED "fast track"...

13. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There are no online PA programs. Not one single PA program exists which takes someone who is not a PA and able to educate them to become a PA. What does exist are online programs which take existing...

14. 2 month vaccination question

    RockMay replied to nurselove757's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is absolutely horrifying. 4 case studies in pediatrics and yet this person is somehow legally allowed to be an independent practitioner? Contrast this to the family medicine physician who has to...

15. FNP-BC & FNP-C

    RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Two competing organizations which claim to be "the" certification for FNPs is extremely