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Midlevel.WTF

My run-in with a nurse practitioner at the ER

Anonymous Reddit submission [https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/mqcbcm/my_runin_with_a_nurse_practitioner_at_the_er/] I wanted to share my experience with a nurse practitioner at the ER last week. She came in with no badge visible and I called her “doctor”. She didn’t

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital: "Advanced Practice Nurses" to begin coming to Code Blues and supervise residents

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital: "Advanced Practice Nurses" to begin coming to Code Blues and supervise residents

Welcome to RWJ University Hospital, where nurse midlevels decide how physicians practice medicine.

NP doesn’t understand how urine cultures work

Tell the bacteria to grow faster, or NP Karen will not be pleased!

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The DNP is a rigorous degree with very demanding coursework

...as demonstrated by this "project" that was posted to a large Facebook NP group: Ask yourself: in what world is creating an online survey considered to be appropriate coursework for what is supposed to be a terminal, doctoral-level degree? High school students have completed projects that were much more rigorous

I feel like I was duped...

Originally posted on Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/mmymov/i_feel_like_i_was_duped/]. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. A short background: I graduated as a biology major in 2015, worked as an outpatient surgical assistant through 2019, then went to get my BSN, RN.

Orange-flavored scalp staples

Anonymous submission (emergency physician) EM here. So the hospital was trying to hire a new midlevel one day. They found a family medicine NP who had a few orientation shifts. The NP staffed a patient with me as "patient came in with a headache. It's moderate. Also doesn't complain of

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The NPs' dirty laundry, round 2: Reaction to diploma mills

In reference to Round 1 for PMHNPs After the Match: Boosting Profits Drives NP Diploma Mills : Emergency Medicine NewsAn abstract is unavailable.LWW An article entitled "Boosting Profits Drives NP Diploma Mills" published in the February 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine News has been making quite a few waves, among

NP: "I told him it might be a heart attack"

"Might be"? It's a fucking STEMI!

Midlevel doesn't like their own job title

If you don't want to be called a midlevel, then go to medical school and become a physician.

Do NPs Really Get Enough Training?

Originally posted on Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/nursepractitioner/comments/d6ur73/do_nps_really_get_enough_training/] I’ve been an NP for almost 5 years and was a nurse for 5 years before that. Nearly all of my experience has been in the outpatient setting, community health centers

"Why do they keep coming back?"

It doesn't take long for a second-year medical student to figure out what an FNP can't.

"Dr." Gerald "Jay" Baltz, PMHNP and the tragedy of Stevie Ryan's death

Medicine 101: Don't sleep with your patients.

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It's just a flesh wound

We would be truly horrified if this was an actual patient case, but thankfully, based on the comments of this post, it appears that this is none other than this nurse practitioner's very own finger! Can anyone give her some pointers? We're not too sure that soliciting medical advice from

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NP student: "I just don't wanna waste brain space"

Um, that's kinda important to know?

"Dr." Erica Zelfand, ND

"Family physician"? How about fraudulent physician?

Hate mail from Michelle Rhyner, NP

Michelle Rhyner, NP [https://www.stfrancismedicalcenter.com/find-a-provider/michelle-rhyner-np/] From: Michelle Rhyner Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Proud to be a provider and NP I just have to express my utter disgust that a group of MDs takes such an extraneous effort

Watertown Regional Medical Center moving to a "100% CRNA model"

Watertown Regional Medical Center moving to a "100% CRNA model"

We sure wouldn't want to be a patient undergoing surgery at this hospital.

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Now you know how physicians feel

Choking on a fishbone

We have to agree with Karen on this one - this is the kind of post that makes NPs look bad.

Coffee break during rounds

These nurse practitioners have absolutely no sense of shame, just like they have absolutely no regard for their own patients.

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The pot calling the kettle black

Haha, as if the AANP and their NPs aren't being disrespectful when they claim to provide the same or better care as physicians do...