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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 (visualizing throat and vocal cords); 3) Salivary ...

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, prescribing and referring, but I pend all prescriptions t...

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 try and negotiate, or is it really non-negotiable be...

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 testing and then analyze the results, talk to the...

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 airway), EGDs, Bronchs and FESS, so I have a very good i...

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

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 trained to do in the office setting by the hiring MD (s...

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 quickly.

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 yet?

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 Lancet, claiming the link between the administration of ...

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

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 he referred to. No wonder, this ERRATUM IN was po...

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 or knowledge". Here is the quote from the articl...

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

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 rules, since these are federal entities? If Medic...

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 reimbursement unless care is provided "under the s...

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

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 study plan: 1) Took the entire APEA Q-bank (over 320...

Thanks!

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 and no other signs/symptoms). Adherence to the rec...

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 test, pace-maker interrogation, assisting with angi...

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 preferences... hmm. I shall pass on that one. Ye...

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, surgeon was scrubbed, was holding retractors and g...

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 them what motivated them to go to graduate school)...

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, plastic surgeon or FNP/PA/primary care doctor?