วีดีโอ

Lee Anna White Amy Clark Susan

Johnson Angela Lewis Edward Johnson Brenda

Well explained 😊

John!! So awesome to come across your channel while researching. You are always an abundance of information, would love to see more recent videos when you aren’t working your tail off or at the gym!!

It’s really quite simple. Can you go to medical school online? Can you go to DNP school online. Welp. There it is. The curriculum needs to reflect a genuine dedication to elevating the clinical practice of NP’s, not theory fluff, paper-writing, policy advocation, and research. All of the aforesaid have a place, but there isn’t time in a clinical practice-focused curriculum to go into those areas. A DNP should have competence and prudence to rival an MD considering the amount of overlap in roles and responsibilities. Might be why so many docs prefer PA’s to NP’s.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I am working on my DNP for academia by choice. It’s what I want. In the clinical setting however I will not be called “Doctor” nor would I want to. It’s misleading to the patients. Yes I’m proud of my degree but it has its place.

Thank you this helps!

Always so great to have to excellent nurses helping.

What are your thoughts about an RN should be required to have several years (ie 3-5 years)of bedside nursing experience prior to being able to apply to NP school? Do you think that would decrease the saturation of NP? The hospital that I work at does not hire NP unless they have at least 5 years of bedside nursing either in ER or Critical Care (ICU,NICU,etc).

I don't think that DNP's should use the term "doctor" in the clinical environment. The reason because it is misleading and confusing to the patients. The DNP's should only be called "doctors" in an academia setting.

Should it always be nurses who are barred from using it!. I have heard many others like Pharmacists, Medical laboratory scientists, Physiotherapists, and many others who are doctorate-prepared professionals referred to by the same title, and I have never seen it raise any concern within the public!. Why should nurses be prohibited from referring to themselves as such, when we have nonmedical professionals using the title all over, irrespective of where they are!!

Agreed - even as an NP diagnosing and writting scripts confuses patients who automatically assume I am a physician, it always requires clarification to them of the role. I agree the current DNP is not a clinically focused degree but rather more focused on EBP, systems, health care delivery, etc. Many of these issues are redundant and carry over from the master's level. Nursing really does need to come up with a better way to address clinical education at the doctoral level.

Why can't they just come up with another title? I think people with doctorates in schools should be called professor. We have two "doctors" at our allied health school but they are misleading to students. I think there needs to be a different title. I understand they worked hard and completed education... But it's definitely misleading.

Yes DNPs earn a doctorate, but they shouldn’t refer to themselves as doctor simply because it causes confusion among lay clients and patients. The DNP is kind of like an Ed.D with a specific focus on Nursing topics.

Have you heard of billing app not capturing charges? Its happening to me. Work in post acute at multiple buildings. From 3/1/23 - 9/1/23 350+ RVUs have went to outer space. Its Oct 6th. I discovered the problem 8/21. The huge hospital organization has not paid me. Its like im asking for blood from their first born. I get 30$ per RVU. 10K+ Being held up.

Do you think the sand for CRNA?

I beg to differ!!! You first need to define the term ‘doctor’ - what does it mean? The word doctor is derived from the Latin verb, “docere” - meaning to teach or a scholar! (Which one does not apply to a DNP?). Let’s move on. As RNs we are clinical and as we move on to advance nursing we are still working in the clinical setting, and even that is still irrelevant to who should use the term “Dr.” In their title. The doctorate is a honorific title and anyone with such is entitled to call themselves doctor - whether he or she is. Ph.D, DNP, DO, MD, DPT, DDS, DOM, PharmD, etc. We all put years of sacrifice into our education which gives us the right to use what we have earned. What we should be focused on is re-educating the public on the term doctor, not as a career title, BUT AN ACADEMIC TITLE, because that is what it is. Let’s stop wasting time trying to prove a point and trying to be right or on the side of Doctor’s. Besides, the care that we provide to patients is not inferior to those that are provided by physicians. The title ‘Doctor’ did not originate with physicians. Its been around long before them.

Awesome video! This helped me so much. Definitely gonna take a billing class ASAP

U r one insecure person. Go get a haircut please

You are MORON . MD ARE NOT DOCTORS ON THIS WORLD

For all those that favor the use of DNP to be called a "doctor". Then test yourself as a parent, if your child has a Medical Emergency, would you want your child to be treated solely by a DNP or MD/DO. Then let's see if you have a different opionion

Ppssffff… but a school teacher goes on to get her PhD. She gets to call her self so Dr. due to education? EEEFFF AS IN FRANK DAT!! if I am going to school spending money to get my DNP I’m going to call myself a doctor. I don’t care what anyone say I don’t have to practice as a (MD) doctor, but if I am officially licensed by the state and granted title as a doctor due to education …So I’m WHATEVER!!🙄

How hard was fnp school compared to nursing school?

Noctors.

is this also true for the PA profession?

So what average pay be if you get paid wrvu x a percentage (say 40%) of CMS conversion factor, for example if I saw 10 patients in 1 day? Help me with that math, I’m confused by the percentage

@16:55, I like your style! Lol

I found this the most helpful JC, thank you!! I've been feeling overwhelmed and behind; mostly because I don't really have someone else along side me doing the same thing to compare to.

If the person has a doctorate degree, should be called "Doctor" anywhere, if a Physics PhD. Went to hospital, you should treat that person as Dr. + Name, and if works with you too, you're not changing their role, you're respecting their title only

Hi should CNAs have malpractice insurance?

This is bull!!!! If you earn it, use it!!! You have to call educators “Dr.” There is no benefit for educators either. We could say all of the degrees aren’t beneficial!! Common sense is the best!!! If you let your patients know, I am a NP who earned my doctoral degree. It is not unethical to use it. I don’t agree with this at all!!!

What about a CNS ( ✨clinical ✨ nurse specialist ) ??

I do have a question. How are the rvus calculated points wise. Since we are NPs, you said the 99214 is 1.92. Since we only get reimbursed 85% does that drop the 1.92 to 1.632? I'm a new NP and I'm keeping up with my own points. We do get monthly summary reports but unless my math is wrong, my numbers are lower then what they should be.

Good vid. This seems more of an ego thing than anything else. “I worked hard for the DNP” yeah, probably not harder than the guys and gals who suffered 8 years plus residency for their MD titles though. People, most patients are unaware of what the titles actually mean. When you say “I am doctor so and so” they will almost always assume you are an MD or DO. This is misleading, and when you say “I am doctor so and so, I am a nurse practicioner that….” They will mostly not know what the hell you are talking about. Congrats on the doctorate, but lets make things a little easier on the patients.

I'm sure you're paid by doctors. The DNP is a doctoral-level nursing degree.

I disagree and somewhat agree with you. Yes, you should use the title because you earned it. If other people can use it in other professions then we can too! Most medical doctors now go by physician in my area but they are also referring to nurse practitioners as physicians too. But it’s all in the matter of personal opinion. But, in saying all that I would prefer to go by NP in a hospital setting. I’ve been around other DNP’s who want to be referred to as doctor and I’m torn in calling them by that title because they are NP’s. I go by my title because I earned it but if the patient or my fellow colleagues prefer to not address me as doctor (my full name here) then I won’t be offended. Anyway you look at it we are all in this together from CNA to MD; we all want to help, love, and take care of people.

A DNP may use the title Doctor depending on the setting they work in. I know a Nurse Practitioner who works in a hospital and is also an adjunct instructor of a nursing program. She basically accepts the title Doctor when she is teaching courses and the title NP when she is in the hospital.

“The short answer is no because I’m not going to get my DNP” lol. But if you did you would. Lol. Also, your best answer to why there is even a DNP is because they want to charge more? Lol common bro.

I'm really glad i found your videos. I've watched a few and they've been really helpful. If you have a chance can you make a video on follow up? My preceptor who was an NP had much shorter follow ups, like 1 month after adding a new medication. The doctors and PAs have longer ones. Many would do 3-6 months. I'm just not sure how often I should see/check on the patient because my 2 experience have been so different.

With respect, no. Regardless of the origin of the word, the modern day interpretation refers to a physician (MD or DO) or PhD. It denotes the highest standard of expertise in the subject. NPs are not up to the same standard. And no, it’s no, they are not more holistically trained, it’s the same - medicine, conditions and diseases affecting the human body and mind. Medical students have more in depth training than PAs and NPs, yet they can’t practice until completing residency. It’s irritating the number of wannabe doctor degrees popping up these days - why can’t people be happy being the best at what they do, nurse, therapist etc?

I combed through numerous comments and I think many have missed the point. A DNP stands for a Doctor of Nursing Practice. So yes, You are doctorally prepared, however in a hospital/clinical setting where you work side by side with Physicians, it is unethical to say you are a "Doctor". In any other setting, one can display their hard earned DNP however they prefer. Honestly, I think PhDs should be the only one's called doctors, and MD's should only be called physicians, OR everyone in the clinical setting that writes orders or prescribes should be called providers. I think that would just simplify everything.

Both links to the source opened to error pages

This is depressing, considering switching back to computer science..

Can you share the resources you use to get familiar with billing and coding? Any resource for dummies??

Thank you so much! Make more videos please and thanks! 💗

You're talking nonsense!

Thank you JC! What do you find is typical RVU per hour or ??? for NPs in primary care (adult medicine/internal medicine?

Very helpful! Thanks so much!

Personally, I believe you should be allowed to use the term "Doctor", however, you should clarify that you are a DNP and not a MD. Since what most people are concerned about is the assumption from patients. That being said Doctor does not mean MD or DO, it's a title for being an expert in that field and whoever obtains that should be allowed to use that title. But it should also come with clarification to avoid confusion.

I think that people are not understanding the etymology of a doctorate or maybe contrasting the wrong terms or just maybe they should be advocating for the DNP to include a more focused clinical practitioner approach for the nurse profession terminal degree. If someone earns a DNP (Clinical or not) then they should be addressed as such in any setting. A doctoral or doctorete is used as an umbrealla term for someone who completed a terminal degree in their field, and SHOULD be called doctor where applicable, because as stated, they earned it. In the end, if the degree is clinical based or not, if that terminal degree is earned then should be addressed as such with clarification of their role of NP.