Hospital administration has ballooned in size over the past decades, particularly in the United States. To combat this increase in cost, hospitals have begun replacing practising MDs with Nurse Practitioners (NPs).
What are NPs?
They are trained nurses that have a level of autonomy and decision making far beyond what you traditionally may think of when you hear the word "nurse", and in some states are able to practice entirely on their own without direct supervision.
How does one become an NP? What is their training?
After completing a Bachelors degree, one can register for any number of online only Nurse Practitioner
diploma mills programmes across the US. They take crucial classes such as
lobbying,
finance, and
leadership and management, for one year. They finish off their degree with a research project that rivals a middle school science fair.
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PD's then shadow a MD for 600 hours. They are now fully able to practice on their own in whatever field they choose. For comparison, apart from the much longer and difficult education, an MD will have a residency of around
20,000 hours.
Why is this an issue? Who cares?
Malpractice is increasing,the USA is producing thousands of entitled idiots that have a high school level of biological understanding, and allowing them to treat patients who have no idea that the person they are talking to isn't a Doctor. NPs are notoriously pissy about being seen as lower than Doctors, and will try to hide the fact that they aren't constantly. They are going as far as to buy their own badges that say "Doctor" on Amazon.
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A case study in NP incompetence is Antoinette Thompson, an NP working independently in an ER that killed a 19 year old girl in 2015 due to clear malpractice. The girl had an elevated heart rate because she had a bloodclot in her lung and her body was compensating for the lack of oxygen by increasing the heartbeats per minute. With Thompson's bullshit education and training, she treated each symptom individually like it was a textbook MCQ, and gave the girl medication to slow down her heart rate. She never considered
why it was that her heart rate was increased, only that she should reduce it. A deposition was held
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where Thompson cried and said that she didn't mean to hurt her.
This woman is still a practicing NP. Cases like this happen constantly, and yes, they can do more than just prescribe you drugs.
Here is a 6 minute video where an actual doctor talks about having to fix multiple fucked up procedures carried out by Nps.
Why can they do all this? NPs have ridiculous lobbying, the
AANP constantly demands states to increase the level of power NPs can wield.
Why are they lolcows?
NPs are incredibly defensive about their abilities. They believe they are discriminated against by Doctors, and have the same skill level and ability as them.
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In the same breath they then ask eachother the most retarded questions that really show just how little they know.
How do I look at X-rays?
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How do I ask patients questions?
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What can we actually do?
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In the medical field they are often referred to as "mid-levels", and other communities criticising their actions refer to them as "Noctors"
Where can you find these communities?
There are hundreds of Facebook groups for Nurse Practitioners ranging from harmless study groups to terrifying advice pages where they try to pool together their collective knowledge to see if it can reach the level of an actual doctor ("My patient has had chlamydia 3 times in the past 6 months, and I'm still prescribing him the exact same treatment each time and it isn't working. Weird right?", "Can I give my alcoholic patients xanax prescriptions?")
Additionally there are large communities on Twitter and even TikTok, where they shill to children into thinking they are as qualified as Doctors.
- For critical posts about NPs
The majority of the facebook groups are private, although they will accept anyone if you apply usually
One of the biggest is
TLDR
Nurses are getting shitty degrees and are getting the power to treat YOU. They fuck up constantly and scramble to defend themselves while only making it worse by highlighting their lack of knowledge in key areas. Those ethnically ambiguous overweight women twerking in the hospital while patients die beside them are likely NPs. Those literal whos on twitter that post about their glow-up etc with pictures of them graduating, and claiming to be a doctor, are likely Nps They are the medical equivalent of a chihuahua, constantly barking as if they are tough shit and looking for attention. This would be comical, if the medical industry wasn't then assigning these chihuahuas to be guard dogs.
Note: I am not American and as such could have gotten some details wrong when it comes to the requirements for becoming a NP vs a MD. I also admittedly know next to nothing on the NP lobby, apart from the fact that it is a huge pain in the ass. Let me know if there are mistakes or information to add, and I'll make the changes.
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