MidlevelWTF

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Nurse practitioner wonders if pulmonary congestion could be bronchitis

"But, Your Honor, everyone I asked on Facebook said it wasn't concerning!"

Nurse Practitioner

The invisible hand of the free market

The free market giveth, and the free market taketh away.

Nurse Practitioner

Putting the "nurse" in nurse practitioner

Nurse practitioner: nursing experience sold separately.

Social Media Consults

Midlevel just doesn't feeling like doing that right now

Ain't nobody got time for patient care!

Physician Assistant

University of Lynchburg calls PA a "cardiology fellow"

There's only one cardiologist here, and it's the guy with an MD.

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Hanging in the balance: When a Facebook consult becomes a matter of life and death

No big deal, just send the kid home with a popsicle and call it a day. It's not like anything bad could happen.

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"I feel like school did not prepare me for this very well"

Imagine working in a walk-in clinic while being clueless about antibiotics. Unimaginable for a doctor, but par for the course for midlevels.

Social Media Consults

File not found

Primary care medicine and oupatient care cannot be distilled into a "file".

News

Indiana Senate Bill No. 366

https://custom.statenet.com/public/resources.cgi?id=ID:bill:IN2021000S366&ciq=ncsl&client_md=d097407f1d2895552dabe22fda844dee&mode=current_text [https://custom.statenet.com/public/resources.cgi?id=ID:bill:IN2021000S366&ciq=ncsl&client_md=d097407f1d2895552dabe22fda844dee&mode=current_text] What a disgusting attempt at a power grab by physician assistants in

Social Media Consults

"Could it be MRSA?"

Yep, it's MRSA. Definitely MRSA.

Social Media Consults

Mom deserves an answer from an obstetrician, not a Facebook group

Some NPs just have no qualms when it comes to asking for medical advice in specialty areas way above their pay grade, like OB/GYN. To be honest, I wouldn't even be trusting a non-OB/GYN physician to get into topics like amniotic fluid volume. Dredging up my very basic

Stories

Senior resident getting blamed for APRN vanishing

> Senior resident getting blamed for APRN vanishing [https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/lkpyfy/senior_resident_getting_blamed_for_aprn_vanishing/] from r/Residency [http://www.reddit.com/r/Residency] What a load of bullshit. This story is infuriating, not only for the midlevel APRN's laziness and lack of

Social Media Consults

NSAIDs before surgery, sure why not?

NSAIDs before surgery, what could possibly go wrong?

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Aren't you supposed to learn these things in school?

Does anyone have good apps or textbooks that will tell me how to do my job?

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Nurse practitioner needs help differentiating anemia

Medical students are expected to understand basic medicine before graduating. Not so for midlevels!

Social Media Consults

"Fairly stable" on two benzodiazepines

She's already on two benzodiazepines for the past decade, why not add another?

Nurse Practitioner

How to write psychiatric progress notes, according to an APRN

A note so useless, it was better off not being written at all.

Social Media Consults

Hold on, let me refer to my info sheets

Why bother with medical school and psychiatry residency when you can just refer to an info sheet and use an app?

News

According to GW Hospital, residents are not physicians

When physicians aren't allowed into the Physician Lounge.

Social Media Consults

Amenorrhea

No period? Maybe try coming up with a differential first?

Hate Mail

Fan mail from Sheri Saluga, PMHNP-BC

Unhinged hate mail from a so-called Psychiatric-Mental Health nurse practitioner. Oh lawd, the irony!

Social Media Consults

It's all about the money

Why bother with primary care when you can 420 blaze it?

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Who needs medicine when you can just treat everything with an IV?

Nurse practitioner = naturopathic practitioner?

Nurse Practitioner

Meningitis, watered down for midlevels

Diseases don't adjust their severity based on your lack of knowledge about them.

Social Media Consults

NP wants to know about treating COVID with experimental drug

At least she's not asking about hydroxychloroquine.