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thats one thing people seem to miss, being a 10 year ICU RN will help you know certain acute care skills, but if you have someone with SOB, you have to find out why, its not just crank up the O2 and Peep. you have to know what your are looking for, and treat it, not to mention would you even know what to look for?

hospitalist? as a new grad?!

The role of the NP is losing its status because these schools are accepting everyone and not looking at their background, no entrance exam or anything. Just because you were a good bedside nurse will not make a good NP, you have to be knowledgeable not only about treatments but diagnosing, differentials, and management etc.

Unfortunately, many of these things are true and with the amount of incompetent NP's running around you will see decreased reimbursements and worse things occur to NP's because of so many mistakes made by them.

I would like to refer AlwaydTiredNP to reddit.com/r/noctor how can you be a NP and diagnose, treat, but only piggyback off of MDs...didn't they say in school NP care is to the standard of MD....you just embarass yourself when all you talk about is pay rather than quality of care.

blame the schools that churn out nurses and lead them to believe they are somehow smarter and can diagnose and treat complicated cases...there needs to be more of a stringent process on accepting students and these diploma mills need to be closed.

and we claim that NP are on par with MD LOL

NP schools don't prepare you for anything, they are mostly a joke especially with the diploma mills, and yes definitely would recommend a residency just to be more competent in relation to peers and patients.

everyone is quick to point out that OP did something wrong, yet when OP posted the steps of PICC removal no one replies if its correct or not. LOL get a grip, its pretty much an IV removal and nothing happens. Just make sure they aren't bleeding and you have an order.

I don't think you understood what i meant, i was implying that nurses as a whole for some reason worry about doing something wrong and having something occur to their license much more often, and they are usually reported by their own peers for petty reasons. while other medical professions don't have this attitude.

not charting something properly? thats ridiculous, half of the charting of nurses that i know of are either blank from night shift, either they were out to get you or the nurses you work with (managers) are a real crappy people.

Not misogyny when you see it posted on here all the time, and how nurses feel so worried about license issues, you wouldn't see things like this in any other medical profession about license issues.

I noticed that in the US most female professions have these issues where it seems you are so worried about your license than actually the patient. You dont see this in medicine as much or with respiratory therapists. And often times its the nurses themselves who are in those power/controlling behavior to report nurses for no reason other than to feel better about themselves.

I had a question about the full scope of practice changes that are slowly occuring in certain areas. If this is enforced and NP's have full scope of practice, are they still able to work under MD's or will they just work in their own clinics and under companies?

Also looking into this program, whats the curriculum like, lots of papers? it seems a lot longer than the other universities.