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  1. ENT NP

    Purrsx2 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is there anyone who currently works or worked as Nurse Practitioner in an ENT office? Have you done the following procedures: 1) Nasal bleed cauterization; 2) Scoping with flexible fiber-optic scope...

  2. Credentialing

    Purrsx2 replied to Xcbanditbravo's topic in Advanced Practice

    I started working in the end of February for an outpatient ENT clinic of a large teaching facility. It is mid-May and I am still waiting to be credentialed... I am seeing patients, diagnosing,...

  3. Salary and Negotiation

    Purrsx2 replied to brista's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Question for all working NPs: if Glassdor gives NP salary range for a particular employer as 41 to 45 per hour, and the offer states 41.02 for a new graduate NP (38400 for 18 hours), is it worth to...

  4. ENT NP

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    BCgradnurse, Thanks for the response. I am expected to start allergy testing program in the office. They have 2 LPNs there, I don't know if the surgeons (they have 3 of them there) expect me to do the...

  5. ENT NP

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks, BostonFNP and BCgradnurse! Since I work in OR, I have seen my fair share of intubations with glidescope (it has a monitor that shows the trachea and vocal cords to assist with difficult...

  6. ENT NP

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks for advice, BostonFNP! How difficult was it to learn how to do fiber-optic

  7. ENT NP

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Anyone with ANY experience in the above procedures? I am a new grad and I am offered a part-time position in ENT office. I was wondering if these procedures are something that a new grad can be...

  8. When does a contract become null & void?

    Purrsx2 replied to NovemberLove's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You can also contact your local Labor Department. If you are not being paid your earned wages, Labor Department will get involved and you will receive all your back pay pretty

  9. DEA license, apply now or when offered a job?

    Purrsx2 replied to flipper628's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When applying for DEA license the form requires to state the address of the practice where you are prescribing. What do you put there if you are not working/prescribing

  10. Helping patients kill themselves

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It is a known fact that Andrew Wakefield, a British former gastroenterologist and medical researcher, published a fraudulent 1998 research paper in the world-known peer-reviewed medical journal...

  11. Helping patients kill themselves

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would really appreciate if you provide your source for this statement (reliable

  12. Helping patients kill themselves

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you for the provided article, written by J. Pereira . I read it and looked up the sources that were quoted in this article. Some of them were not listed, and others did not have information that...

  13. Helping patients kill themselves

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you for the googled links. I carefully read all the information provided on those links, but still did not find any cases where "patients and children have been euthanized without their consent...

  14. Helping patients kill themselves

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would be very interested to see your source of this information. Thanks in

  15. America, party of 2

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Thanks to everyone who actually answered my questions. I agree that president can't change state regulations. Is he able to appoint a healthcare "Czar" who will initiate changes in Medicare/Medicaid...

  16. America, party of 2

    Purrsx2 replied to Cwoods's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    These are my concerns: 1) Can he federally legislate supervision for all NPs by physicians regardless of how long NP had been practicing? 2) Can he change Medicare/Medicaid rules to exclude NPs from...

  17. AANP test

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    On BoardVitals it was around 80, their test questions, IMHO, are much harder than the real AANP test. I took FNP

  18. AANP test

    Purrsx2 posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Woo-hoo! I passed AANP test with a score of 725 out of 800! Test was not difficult, it only took me 1.5 hours instead of 3 hours to finish my 150 questions, including a bathroom break. This was my...

  19. AANP test

    Purrsx2 replied to Purrsx2's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thanks!

  20. FNP care compared to MD

    Purrsx2 replied to IcanHealYou's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Two of my preceptors were MDs and I have seen Abx prescribed right and left for just about everything... whether it was needed or not (even to a healthy 19 y.o. with runny nose, fever of 99.9 x 1 day...

  21. Cardiac Nurse Practitioners

    Purrsx2 replied to MeechiesRNBSN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Anyone here working as hospital cardiac APRN? What are your duties - taking care of patients on telemetry? CCU? Cath Lab patients post-angioplasty? Or something else? Is it procedure-heavy (stress...

  22. Frustrated...

    Purrsx2 replied to ByNonie's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Do guys buy "more purses/make-up" or it was a reference to females? Advice on reading "neuroscience topics" on males buying shoes, coupled with advice to improve my logic and assumptions on my voting...

  23. Can NP's perform surgery legally?

    Purrsx2 replied to jdc6773's topic in Advanced Practice

    I have seen a couple of occasions where the orthopedic PA did the surgery in its entirety (with the ortho surgeon in OR). One was short TFN, and PA did the entire procedure, from incision to closing,...

  24. Frustrated...

    Purrsx2 replied to ByNonie's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If I understood your post correctly, you are blasting women that go through MSN program with the goal of "wearing white coat and buying more purses/shoes" (I guess you think that you know better than...

  25. reading EKGs- an advanced privilege?

    Purrsx2 replied to NPmimzy75's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have two questions for the community: 1) Is orthopedic surgeon allowed to sign off on EKG strip just because he is an "MD"? 2) Who has more exposure to reading EKG - psychiatrist, pediatrician,...