Friday Funny: Bogus Consults
The time that one NP realized that online degree mills are bad.
TGIF.
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This NP did an “apprenticeship” in GI and probably has a decent understanding of common GI conditions. But what if she were faced with a patient who had a neurologic symptom? Or a pulmonary issue? Or a rheum issue? Would her NP training be sufficient to address it or would she just refer like the NPs she is complaining about? The NP degree mills are an issue but the NP degree itself is an issue as 750ish hours of clinical training isn’t enough to prepare anyone for anything but a job with direct supervision.
Ask the np – did any of your professors have legs. Far too many np graduates have no idea. They are trained sometimes by zoom but more often by YouTube. Never in person.
An NP covering my practice saw mild neutropenia in one of my patients and consulted Heme/Onc, and sent him back to see me ASAP. I saw that he had had cyclic neutropenia for years. I had discussed cyclic neutropenia with him years ago. He thought this was a new and terrible thing he was facing. I confirmed to him the he was still showing normal cytology for African-Americans, and he was relieved. Not to know that fact is OK; not to read the chart is inexcusable. Or used to be.
I have told several nurse practitioners that are quite good that they should be upset about the very poor nurse practitioners coming out of the diploma mills. It is threatening the profession.