Bloomberg reports concerns about NP education
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- In the first of a series 'The Nurse Will See You Now,' Bloomberg reporters investigate concerns about nurse practitioner education. The article includes interviews with nurses and nurse practitioners featured on Patients at Risk, including John Canion and Rayne Thoman.
'The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners
They don’t merely support doctors-NPs increasingly treat patients independently, including in specialty practices and emergency rooms. When they aren’t well trained, the results can be tragic. By Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz, and Noah Buhayar'
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Thank you for all what you are doing. I strongly believe all physicians should stop calling themselves 'providers" as we need to be separated from non physicians. This has become a patient safety issue.
Speaking of gaslighting… I think I saw one of these in the E.R. at Logan, W.V.a last year. I went in there pretty bad off, and he looked like he wasn’t even out of Jr. High school. He said there was absolutely nothing he could find wrong with me. Well, I kept worsening after that (and after the ER bill and the extra cost everything already was) and it had turned out that I had an ulcer and a hernia at the ulcer. The hardest thing wasn’t even the extra cost that doctor kid was… it was that even with all of the equipment and testing available there… and after all of the expensive, extra costs… he made it sound like I was either feigning illness or that I was a hypochondriac. A visit to a family practice (after worsening) was what got me a diagnosis and healing.
I'm an RN with 35 years total nursing experience. What I'm seeing is that too many NPs are inexperienced RNs as they work their way through NP school. You need to spend some years working in the trenches of floor nursing to gain the level of experience and knowledge required to be a competent RN before you pursue your NP.
No nurse can ever equal a board certified physician. The physicians training and experience are different and harder. I'd like to see these nurses take the ABIM certification exam
That is awful! How could that np send that man home knowing that dka is life threatening. As a nurse myself, I would said he should be admitted just by the s/s and the bs reading. Where was this np in nursing school when we learned about dka?
Your description of the "education" provided by the online program is simply horrifying
As an NP who graduated from an Emory type program 20 yrs ago, and have since served as a preceptor in many programs, I agree with the need for standardization of NP education, specifically clinical rotations and hours required.
But the fact remains that overall studies have shown time and again that the care provided by NPs, specifically in primary care where the need for them is greatest, is no less sufficient and in many cases superior, than that received by MDs.
There are bad actors across all the healthcare entities and the fact remains that we have a serious lack of primary care providers in many parts of the country. Unless something changes to incentivize more MDs to go into primary care, the need for NPs is only growing.
Now don’t get me started on new grad NPs who go straight to speciality practices or med spas because they can pay better, where they don’t ever really use the education received. Just like medical students looking at their loans and the pay gap between primary care and specialist practices.
It’s a bigger problem than just one type of provider over another, and this kind of sensationalist finger pointing doesn’t help anyone except maybe the individuals motivated by their own self promotion and nothing else.
There are zero high quality studies that show this to be true. There are *some* studies that show a collaborative role (with direct, clear-cut supervision) are acceptable, but none that show equivalence in NP vs MD/DO practice.
Thank you for persevering with this issue. The more people know about these risks, the more lives will be saved.
I turned down a job offer from a PEDIATRICIAN WANTING ME TO SEE 25 PEDIATRIC PATIENTS A DAY AND PUT THEM ON ANTIPSYCHOTICS AND STIMULANTS 😂😂😂😂😂 I am without a job because I refuse to do the things you trash ALL NPs over in your videos calling us imposters. Im WITHOUT A JOB BECAUSE OF WHAT MDs WANT ME TO DO!!! THERE ARE NO RESIDENCIES OR TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES FOR US!!! What are we supposed to DO!???
you can go to medical school lol