GP to NP?
Nurse: There’s a PBS video that gives a pretty good summary of the issues surrounding NP’s in primary care– as I start NP school this summer, a lot of people have asked me questions about how NP’s...
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This morning NYT has an editorial applauding the move to eliminate more tests — and outright denying that it means the R-word. . .
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Drug abuse among pregnant women is not a minor problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/health/research/prescription-drug-abuse-soars-among-pregnant-women.html?ref=health So, is the solution to lock...
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On Nurse’s bookshelf. . .
Nurse is a sucker for comics (you read my other blog, nursosaurus, right?). Nurse is also a sucker for health reform (it’s a BFD). Nurse knows: it's a BFD. So it should come as no surprise that I...
View ArticleIf there was an anti-AIDS pill, who would get it?
Remember our discussion about the implications of knowingly exposing someone to HIV? I think it’s interesting to revisit that analysis in light of the recent news about Truvada, a drug that potentially...
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In Nursing News. . .
In nursing news, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made a lot of changes this week, including expanding the definition of “medical staff,” to allow professionals including advanced-practice...
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Nurses protesting NATO
Or, a nurses’ union protesting at the NATO meetings, to be more exact. Lots of news stories covered this story today, so I thought I’d touch on it. Perhaps this is puzzling to people who think of...
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From the department of righteous indignation:
I will depart from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a brief bout of righteous indignation, which, while not technically about law or nursing, affects nurses and lawyers, so here ya go!...
View ArticleUpdate: Debt Collectors in the ER?
A few weeks ago, we wrote about medical debt collection going on in hospitals, and whether it was interfering with treatment or intimidating patients out of seeking needed care. Now Kaiser Health News...
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Nurse and Lawyer have been on vacation! Well, Ok, not really. . . Laywer was taking the bar exam, and Nurse was on vacation. In the mean time, though, I’ve caught up on some reading. Have you seen...
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