IRS Steals Medical Records
The article below concerns me a lot and I hope that the doctors wins his lawsuit and I hope patients find out and sue as well. If you had asked me if I thought that this could happen with the privacy restraints that we have, I would have said no!The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter Tuesday to acting IRS Administrator Daniel Werfel requesting information about a 2011 agency search and seizure of as many as 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.The letter follows a recent lawsuit regarding the legality of the seizure of more than 10 million American patients ’ medical infor...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - June 11, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
How To Deal With A Hostile Work Environment
How to deal with a hostile work environment? This is a touchy subject in the medical world. Nurses are often subjected to harsh working environments of forced overtime and heavy patient ratios. More experienced nurses often "eat their young" in the hospital arena.
One way to improve this is to further your education and move out of those areas of practice into a realm that offers more autonomy like becoming a Nurse Practitioner. This is the track that I took to improve my nursing career almost 6 years ago. For the most part, I have enjoyed my job taking care of patients and their families and watching the children grow up...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - June 7, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
How To Deal With A Hostile Work Environment
How to deal with a hostile work environment? This is a touchy subject in the medical world. Nurses are often subjected to harsh working environments of forced overtime and heavy patient ratios. More experienced nurses often "eat their young" in the hospital arena.One way to improve this is to further your education and move out of those areas of practice into a realm that offers more autonomy like becoming a Nurse Practitioner. This is the track that I took to improve my nursing career almost 6 years ago. For the most part, I have enjoyed my job taking care of patients and their families and watching the children grow up i...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - June 7, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Turn Us Loose And Let Us Fly
Nurse practitioners can practice independently in 17 states. Slowly, over time, things will change. Many doctors will comment saying that "if you wanted to practice medicine, you should have gone to medical school". Well, I went to nursing school and it involved a terminal degree of NP at the time and I can diagnose, treat, and manage MY patients without a MD behind my name just fine.
Most doctors are used to working with us on an equal footing, especially in rural settings. The company that I work for treat us all the same. It's been over a year since they have been recruiting another family doc with no success. Most of ...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - May 27, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
Turn Us Loose And Let Us Fly
Nurse practitioners can practice independently in 17 states. Slowly, over time, things will change. Many doctors will comment saying that "if you wanted to practice medicine, you should have gone to medical school". Well, I went to nursing school and it involved a terminal degree of NP at the time and I can diagnose, treat, and manage MY patients without a MD behind my name just fine.Most doctors are used to working with us on an equal footing, especially in rural settings. The company that I work for treat us all the same. It's been over a year since they have been recruiting another family doc with no success. Most of th...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - May 27, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
RN Nursing Graduation
Last night was my soon to be daughter-in-laws's RN pinning ceremony. It's hard to believe that it was all the way back in 2001 that I received mine. I was so proud and nervous. I had no clue what my career and life would be like as a nurse and now as a nurse practitioner.
I have formed several friendships over the years as a nurse and a nurse practitioner blogger. Surprisingly enough, most have been through the blogosphere. I have always loved surfing through my nursing buddy's blogs and seeing how their careers and lives have been going. Unfortunately, for me, blogging has been put on the back burner for far too long.
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Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - May 4, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
RN Nursing Graduation
Last night was my soon to be daughter-in-laws's RN pinning ceremony. It's hard to believe that it was all the way back in 2001 that I received mine. I was so proud and nervous. I had no clue what my career and life would be like as a nurse and now as a nurse practitioner.I have formed several friendships over the years as a nurse and a nurse practitioner blogger. Surprisingly enough, most have been through the blogosphere. I have always loved surfing through my nursing buddy's blogs and seeing how their careers and lives have been going. Unfortunately, for me, blogging has been put on the back burner for far too long.So......
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - May 4, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Nurse Practitioners Walk The Line
I often find myself wishing for the good old days when your family doctor was truly a part of your community. Back in the prairie days, docs and teachers would rotate staying in family's homes and often ate dinner with people in their community. People appreciated their care and the medical provider had a vested interest in helping people. Too often, many health care providers don't really know anything about their patients and aspects that influence the decisions they make in life. We are such a litigious society and providers are all about the numbers game. I have socialized with patients outside of taking care of them a...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 22, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
Nurse Practitioners Walk The Line
I often find myself wishing for the good old days when your family doctor was truly a part of your community. Back in the prairie days, docs and teachers would rotate staying in family's homes and often ate dinner with people in their community. People appreciated their care and the medical provider had a vested interest in helping people. Too often, many health care providers don't really know anything about their patients and aspects that influence the decisions they make in life. We are such a litigious society and providers are all about the numbers game. I have socialized with patients outside of taking care of them a...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 22, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Practitioner Students
I love when I find my blog listed as one of the top NP blogs on the net! I am really trying hard to get back to blogging and finding my voice again. The office has been really busy and we still haven't found another MD to work in our small town. I'm getting tired but am hanging on! Enjoy looking through their links and I will be doing it too so I can find some more great NPs to follow myself!
Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Practitioner Students (Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place)
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 15, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Practitioner Students
I love when I find my blog listed as one of the top NP blogs on the net! I am really trying hard to get back to blogging and finding my voice again. The office has been really busy and we still haven't found another MD to work in our small town. I'm getting tired but am hanging on! Enjoy looking through their links and I will be doing it too so I can find some more great NPs to follow myself!Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners& Nurse Practitioner Students (Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place)
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 15, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Practitioner Students
I love when I find my blog listed as one of the top NP blogs on the net! I am really trying hard to get back to blogging and finding my voice again. The office has been really busy and we still haven't found another MD to work in our small town. I'm getting tired but am hanging on! Enjoy looking through their links and I will be doing it too so I can find some more great NPs to follow myself! < br / > < br / > < a href="http://onlinefnp.com/2012/top-25-websites-for-nurse-practitioners/" > Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & amp; Nurse Practitioner Students < /a > < div class="feedflare" > < a href="http://feeds.feedb...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 14, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
Speaking about Cold and Flu Differences On The Radio
Hello to all who are reading my Nurse Practitioner blog! I had a busy week at the office and helping my husband on The Retro Club Show on 96.5 The Jet Saturdays from 1-3. To listen, go to the Retro Replay tab and click on the links. I've been enjoying myself and hope to get some feedback on the website from listeners. I am trying to be totally conversational like I am in the office.
What is your style in the office? Most NPs are interested in the entire patient. This makes me run behind in the office. I guess as long as I'm worth the wait, I will continue to do it. I tell my patients to tap their watch at the beginning of...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 4, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
Speaking about Cold and Flu Differences On The Radio
Hello to all who are reading my Nurse Practitioner blog! I had a busy week at the office and helping my husband onThe Retro Club Show on 96.5 The Jet Saturdays from 1-3. To listen, go to the Retro Replay tab and click on the links. I've been enjoying myself and hope to get some feedback on the website from listeners. I am trying to be totally conversational like I am in the office.What is your style in the office? Most NPs are interested in the entire patient. This makes me run behind in the office. I guess as long as I'm worth the wait, I will continue to do it. I tell my patients to tap their watch at the beginning of th...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - March 4, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Geez At The Spam!
Great Gatsby! I turn my back for a second and my comment box is FULL of spam comments! Doesn't anyone leave legitimate comments anymore? It seems like most of coming from overseas too. Ugh!
Since I haven't personally updated about me in a while, here goes....
I am to be a Noni again soon and it's a girl! My daughter has picked out Virginia Lynn as the name so far. She's due on her brother's birthday.
Work is a crazy as ever and we are still looking for a physician to join the practice but haven't found any that want to work in a small rural town. Since we are one of two offices that are left, we are getting swamped with...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - February 20, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: NPs Save Lives Source Type: blogs
