Elite #NursePractitioner would like us to look at the picture and share our thoughts #InfectiousDisease #shingles #FacebookConsult #EliteNP #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #MedTwitter midlevel.wtf/elite-np-would…

🧵On Feb. 21, the AMA and 29 medical specialty societies wrote to @DepVetAffairs advocating for more physician involvement and transparency in the effort to develop National Standards of Practice (NSP) for 51 health care occupations, referred to as the Federal Supremacy Project.

Great article by ⁦Rebekah Bernard MD⁩ ❗️NP John Canion’s report calls for urgent change to NP education to protect #patientsafety: “Mounting evidence confirms that NPs do not match up well with their physician counterparts regarding patient outcomes,” medicaleconomics.com/view/nurse-pra…

Midlevel providers such as #NursePractitioners and #PhysicianAssistants kill patients, especially when allowed to practice without direct physician supervision. PPP - Putting Patients First people.com/woman-30-dies-… #PulmonaryEmbolism #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #MedTwitter

🎇Studies show #SB279 will: ❗️mean ⬆️ costs to patients ❗️⬆️ referral rates & health care costs ❗️result in dangerous overprescribing ❗️⬇️ quality of care ❗️NOT increase access to care 👉Read: loom.ly/FzmMWio MI patients deserve #PhysicianLedCare 🛑Vote #NoOnSB279

Thank you to the AMA for featuring my new book #ImposterDoctors ama-assn.org/practice-manag…

For midlevel #NursePractitioners, taking shortcuts is a way of life. midlevel.wtf/elite-np-wants… PPP - Putting Patients First Chamberlain University #bridge #NursePractitioner #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #medtwitter

Remember, OB/GYN physicians are the gold standard when it comes to providing safe, high-quality care to pregnant women - NOT nurse practitioners or lay midwives. #obgyn #pregnancy #medschoolmatters #StopScopeCreep 12news.com/article/news/i…

#PMHNP is going to lose it if her Facebook post ends up on one of those "anti-NP" websites midlevel.wtf/pmhnp-is-going… PPP - Putting Patients First Kentucky Board of Nursing #NursePractitioner #MentalHealth #psychiatry #depression #SocialMediaConsult #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters

This is the kind of challenging material that midlevel #NursePractitioners must master before becoming "board-certified" and being granted the ability to practice medicine, potentially without physician oversight. #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #PhysiciansLead #MedTwitter

"Elite" #NursePractitioner posts patient's tongue on #Facebook "with permission", asks if it's #cancer PPP - Putting Patients First #ENT #oncology #SocialMediaConsult #FacebookConsult #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #MedTwitter

Clap with me, boys and girls: Posting 👏 on 👏 Facebook 👏 does 👏 not 👏 count 👏 as 👏 a 👏 curbside 👏 consult! #PMHNP #NursePractitioner #psychiatry #endocrinology #FacebookConsult #SocialMediaConsult #malpractice #medicine #StopScopeCreep #MedSchoolMatters #MedTwitter

❗️Oppose removing the physician from the healthcare team. ❗️Physician-led care is lower cost, higher quality. ❗️In states where physician supervision is not required, CRNPs do NOT gravitate to rural areas. See other states👇 PA Senate Republicans PaSenateDems PA House Democrats PA House Republicans 🇺🇸

The neurosurgery NP called my fellow hospitalist about a patient they wanted medical clearance for a VP shunt placement and said “I don’t know what this IIH is.” My colleague said, “I’m thinking it means idiopathic intracranial hypertension which is why she’s getting the shunt?”

Is the Nurse Practitioner Job Boom Putting US #HealthCare at Risk?⁩ “…NPs increasingly treat patients independently, including in specialty practices & emergency rooms. When they aren’t well trained, the results can be tragic.” #MedicalSchoolMatters bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Nurse practitioners — the fastest-growing profession in the US — are increasingly treating patients independently of doctors. When they’re poorly trained, the results can be tragic trib.al/y0fn8Ux

"Dozens of nursing students and professors told Bloomberg that #NursePractitioner programs are rapidly sprouting up across the nation amid this increased demand, often graduating thousands of students who are not properly trained to care for patients." beckershospitalreview.com/nursing/the-sh…

WTF is a "RRNA"? According to Google, RRNA = ribosomal RNA. Not sure what that has to do with being a midlevel #CRNA student... AANA ASA® PPP - Putting Patients First midlevel.wtf/youre-not-a-re… #anesthesia #anesthesiology #nurse #StopScopeCreep #MedTwitter