Is there a Doctor onboard? Those dreaded words. Here’s what you get to look forward to? “Delta Air Lines has announced it will begin carrying a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses on every plane after a passenger reportedly died on a flight earlier this month.” Now an extension of the opiate epidemic, overdoses on board…
I support this one. This is one nursing issue I can get behind. “A memo in support of the bill states that safe staffing reduces adverse patient outcomes, citing research funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The data, the memo states, have shown hospitals with lower nurse staffing levels have higher…
On July 8th, 2019, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA), along with the the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), sent an open letter (1) to the AMA: “Where is the Public Campaign Advocating for Physicians?” The overarching concerns were: (a) the recent advertising by nurse practitioners advocating for their independent…
“A systematic review that combines biased pieces of evidence may unfortunately give another seal of authority to that biased evidence.”(1) (https://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/16/evidence-based-medicine-has-been-hijacked-a-confession-from-john-ioannidis/) And there it is…… From a bona-fide expert on meta-analysis and systemic reviews. Thus from this perspective, negates the findings in Impact of the Advanced Practice Provider in Adult Critical Care: A Systematic Review and…
An Institute of Medicine (IOM) (1) report two years in the making guides the Campaign in its efforts to build healthier communities through nursing (2). But the report has been bastardized to fit a narrative and rhetoric. A conclusion in the IOM report has merit, but it’s been spun to fit this narrative and rhetoric of the…
Can you really off the cuff answer what is good in healthcare today? I can now: Doctor’s Kids. As I sit here on yet another flight, this time coming back to USA from visiting my kiddos in Philippines, I ponder what to write about next. Blogging has been a good release and therapeutic tool I…
The study found that patients seen early in the morning were more likely to be referred for cancer screenings than patients who saw their primary care physician later in the afternoon.1 The study also found that patients who saw their physician later in the day were less likely to complete screening after receiving a referra.1…
“With growing evidence that the quality of care delivered by the professions is similar, this wide range in implementation of roles likely reflects organizational goals and cultures rather than the capacities of each profession. The results of this study suggest that physicians, PAs, and NPs can perform a variety of roles that can reflect the…
“An understanding of the basic function of the immune system is useful in order to understand both how vaccines work and the basis of recommendations for their use.”1(CDC) So what do measles, mumps, and pneumococcal pneumonia have in common in 2019? Well, after having spent 6 months on my last medical school rotations in a border…
So lots of social media about negative aspects of having to have clinical supervision and/or collaboration from individuals in states where nurse practitioners (NPs) are seeking full practice authority (FPA). I will state up front, there is no valid argument against those will lesser training to have clinical oversight and/or supervision and/or collaboration from those…