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There's often several categories, including a list of drugs NPs can prescribe, drugs they can prescribe but only with an MD's approval (whether a rubber stamp or more conscientious), and a list that only MD's can prescribe. Much the same goes for procedures that are allowed to NPs. |
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Re: How can I represent nursery skills?
Kansas? I know you mentioned moving from where you were (Southern California, if I recall correctly) somewhere, but that's quite the change.
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09-30-2020, 05:24 PM | #43 | |
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The one who did the bypass op, or rather headed the team who did was a cardio-thoracic surgeon. I think he was the first doctor or surgeon I've seen in decades who was overweight.
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09-30-2020, 05:31 PM | #44 | |
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09-30-2020, 07:10 PM | #45 | |
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For cardiologists you first have a nurse or tech do the ekg and then you see the doctor. Mine was busy enough he told me I didn't need a cardiologist and I haven't seen a full MD since last November. I've never seen the dermatologist who heads the practice I go to. It's always an NP who checks my skin and prescribes for simple skin problems. You only see any given anesthesiologist once (before the operation) and you never see the radiologists who interprets your x-rays though I did once have the Head of the local Radiology dept perform a particularly complex and/or rare test himself. Right now at my primary care place it's 1 to 3 months to get an appt. to see an MD but you can see an NP the same week you call and the NP can at least renew any prescriptions you have. Specialists can actually be easier to see with it being about a week in most cases. It was about hat long for my last opthamalogist and I beleive I saw a junior MD after a nurse/tech did all the tests. It's about a month for a consult with an eye surgeon about relatively routine things like cataract surgery.
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10-01-2020, 06:12 AM | #47 |
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Re: How can I represent nursery skills?
Worth noting that a theatre nurse should probably have some significant degree of surgery skill - they do a lot more of the work than you think.
Speaking of which, a lot of minor procedures are actually done by nurses - and in my experience if you are having any bloodwork done, try to get the blood drawn by a nurse or phlebotomist … letting a doctor try usually leaves you with a nasty bruise and may cause all sorts of other problems. |
10-01-2020, 06:48 AM | #48 |
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Would phlebotomy be a specialty of Physician or Surgery?
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10-01-2020, 07:32 AM | #49 |
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Re: How can I represent nursery skills?
I would say Physician. It's just drawing blood (OK, it's probably a lot more than that to a professional, but I've always been the patient).
Nurses used to do this, but now it's a specialty all it's own. And they are able to take blood from me who used to run from the mere mention of a needle.
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10-01-2020, 07:44 AM | #50 |
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I'd allow it as a technique of both: surgery almost has to have it, but I don't think its actually invasive enough to require surgery, and I really don't think a phlebotomist (who doesn't have to be a nurse, just a tech) should have the surgery skill: they just do so little else with it, and its really not that invasive.
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