RNs giving patient lab results.

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Patient discharged after being hospitalized in ICU for sepsis. Patient calls RN to find out results of urine and blood cultures. RN sends the physician an email requesting the he contact the patient to provide the results. The physician said that I should have given the patient the results myself. Has anything changed? I thought RNs can only give results after the doctor has reviewed them? Please help.

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49 minutes ago, Oldmahubbard said:

I can assure you that they are billing both for the lab evaluation. and the "fact" that they discussed it with the pt or family.

Fraud

Huh? Your response does not make sense in the context of what was written.

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16 hours ago, NurseBlaq said:

I stopped after the large goiter BS because you don't seem to understand it's possible to have a large goiter and it not be obvious due to being overweight, short neck, etc. Instead you just want to rant and appear to be superior and be loudly wrong! Because of your superiority complex that's quite evident with each post, I'm not reading further and will not reply to your winded, condescending rant and elitism. Just say you think you're superior to RNs and call it a day.

You DON'T know everything and seem to forget we learned this in nursing school and that NP was an extension of that knowledge. We are not blithering idiots.

If you look down from your high horse you'd realize it may just be a mule!

OMG...Uh...you do know what PALPATION is don't you? That is where you actually put your hands on someone and feel them. I have performed exams on women that weigh close to 400 lbs. I have yet to find one with a thyroid that obscure.

I'm not at all superior...you went on this rant about how you were misdiagnosed, you jumped to a ton of conclusions, and then are still mad because I took the time to thoughtfully address each one of your questions...then call me "long winded". I guess you didn't take the time to look at your original response.

Some people are just on here to vent their frustrations on nameless people online...you appear to be one of them.

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18 hours ago, LilPeanut said:

@Jory Stop. You've acted poorly. You aren't representing NPs well.

I'll be honest...I really don't care if you like what I post or not...you have the same option as everyone else...skip and move on. I don't dictate what anyone else posts on here....not my call...and certainly not yours. I suggest you go back to the beginning of the thread...you have appeared to miss a few things.

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13 hours ago, PeakRN said:

From time to time I wonder if some of the posters on here really have the experience they claim, or are even nurses at all.

I've wondered the same about you.

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4 hours ago, Jory said:

OMG...Uh...you do know what PALPATION is don't you? That is where you actually put your hands on someone and feel them. I have performed exams on women that weigh close to 400 lbs. I have yet to find one with a thyroid that obscure.

I'm not at all superior...you went on this rant about how you were misdiagnosed, you jumped to a ton of conclusions, and then are still mad because I took the time to thoughtfully address each one of your questions...then call me "long winded". I guess you didn't take the time to look at your original response.

Some people are just on here to vent their frustrations on nameless people online...you appear to be one of them.

See what I mean? More BS.

So when the surgeon and his team opened my throat during surgery and actually SAW the goiter was more bigger than it displayed on the ultrasound your excuse for that is what?

You seem to keep ignoring the point of lab values and tests not displaying the whole picture, and maybe they're sometimes inaccurate but go off though.

I'm not venting, you're just a miserable, elitist jerk who thinks they know all the answers and are above error. There's a thread of people here with the same perception as I and you've managed just about offend us all. It's not everyone else if all us "nameless people" have observed this about you as you're the only common denominator.

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