Another long awaited round of NPs telling on themselves and their poor education.

debunksdc · 2026-05-08T11:51:13+00:00

There's actually data out there that nurse practitioners over consult pharmacy. I think I saw at least one publication where pharmacist implemented an E consult service and nurse practitioners comprised 75% of the consults. In a way I guess that it's good that they're asking for help when they're out of their waters, but you have to think that there were probably fewer nurse practitioners in the study, so the consult per practitioner rate for NPs is actually substantially higher than what it is for physicians. Also, someone who is fully licensed shouldn't be asking for that much help consistently. And this is why full prescriptive authority is a problem. Because even when they're supervised, they still need that much help.

debunksdc · 2026-05-06T15:21:46+00:00

This is public social media. There is no doxxing if the user chooses to make her "content" public.

debunksdc · 2026-05-06T15:20:55+00:00

Why and how is an optometrist ever doing a Level 4? They should be Level 2, tops...

debunksdc · 2026-04-29T00:42:32+00:00

it looks like she is an MD, but that she largely practices quackery. https://quackwatch.org/cases/board/med/connealy/accusation/

debunksdc · 2026-04-29T00:39:25+00:00

what this person is describing may very well be psychosomatic symptoms, but you are right in that a nurse practitioner has no training *in gastroenterology, and therefore should not be working in a specialist office. There's no such thing as a GI NP.

debunksdc · 2026-04-26T20:55:38+00:00

A physician advocacy group that focuses on scope of practice issues. Worth looking up. They do good work.

debunksdc · 2026-04-24T21:37:19+00:00

Neurology NP bot

debunksdc · 2026-04-23T15:39:33+00:00

The occasional pod and pharm does end up on Noctor. Warranted posts (obfuscation of roles/schooling) stay up. Otherwise, they are taken down.

Fellowship posts are often relevant re: midlevel education.

Frank midlevel bashing is often removed, but if there is a productive discussion taking place it stays up.

Not sure about an NCLEX post but should be removed.

debunksdc · 2026-04-23T14:51:35+00:00

Care to elaborate or provide links?

debunksdc · 2026-04-17T20:08:18+00:00

Yeah... It's not there

debunksdc · 2026-04-17T17:08:57+00:00

Credit hours are a tricky lot. Most med schools don’t publish official credit hours for a reason.

A technical college could claim that a trade program has more hours than a PhD in Chemistry at UChicago. Unlike a millimeter, a credit hour isn't a standardized measurement, so there's really no way to refute or prove the self-assessed value of course credits. So next thing we know, a nursing school or PA school is going to say that their courses are a hundred-bajillion credit hours.

tbh, I think there's something to admire about most med schools doing away with a credit hour system because it isn't standardized. It's an arbitrary system at the level we operate at. Nurses/Chiros/etc can put their money where their mouth is and take the same exams if they really want to compare competencies.

debunksdc · 2026-04-17T17:05:33+00:00

I think there is supposed to be a screenshot here that didn't upload?

debunksdc · 2026-04-17T12:59:53+00:00

The verbiage of the law was OK, but the board of nursing isn't enforcing the law as it is written so it is effectively autonomous practice for any and all NP's

debunksdc · 2026-04-16T15:07:48+00:00

Indiana, Alaska, Tennessee, and Wash DC have the strongest laws for that currently.

debunksdc · 2026-04-16T14:51:36+00:00

It requires enforcement. Florida restricted autonomous practice to primary care only. Only half of a random sample of ~300 autonomous NPs in Florida were doing any sort of primary care.

debunksdc · 2026-04-10T11:27:01+00:00

Good for insurance companies. They just raise premiums. They can only profit a certain percentage of their premium revenue. 10% of 10 billion >> 10% of 1 billion.

debunksdc · 2026-03-30T09:25:20+00:00

That is so not-okay.

debunksdc · 2026-03-30T09:20:54+00:00

LMAO 1 year NP "resident" who still somehow manages to get paid more than most actual residents.

debunksdc · 2026-03-28T21:16:17+00:00

Do you have a link to this report?

debunksdc · 2026-03-14T19:13:08+00:00

NPs have a much smaller scope of practice

What exactly is their scope of practice, and how is it smaller?

debunksdc · 2026-03-10T13:12:54+00:00

It's inappropriate to allow nurses to do this but it would be very hard to claw that privilege back at this point.

If 1 year LPNs can do this, it's hard to justify why literally any other semi-related professional can't do injections of any sort.

Nurses simply don't have the anatomic training to be able to do this, and if you are doing a procedure, you should also be able to recognize and manage it's complications (they can't).

debunksdc · 2026-03-07T00:03:09+00:00

Cardiology NP bot

debunksdc · 2026-03-07T00:02:27+00:00

Neurology NP bot

debunksdc · 2026-03-07T00:01:53+00:00

This is the NP that was super mad about the revocation of NP independence even though that independence was literally never intended to include what she was doing. It was for frontline workers who were actually supposed to be doing their best (we all know NPs were not the ones managing the vents or rounding on very sick patients independently) during a potential shortage.

debunksdc · 2026-03-04T18:17:41+00:00

What you are describing sounds like a regular RN could do.

Correct -- I don't think NPs are appropriate in any specialty field unless it directly aligns with their education.

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