re: Defeat the Nurse Practitioner scope of practice expansion - Louisiana SB 187

Of course not.

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Sometimes a diagnosis is made based on the clinical picture. Sometimes life and death decision making should err on the side of reason and experience

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Nobody is denying that but sometimes people just have abscesses on their arse or URIs

I watched a butt abscess kill a guy during medical school

That still doesn't answer any question I asked.

If the MD lobby is going to win, I'd hope y'all would have #s justifying your stance.

Test scores

I've just spent an entire career of watching doctors fall back on the "it's called practicing medicine for a reason" mantra to absolve themselves of all liability when they cut the wrong organ, take out the wrong eye, or show up to surgery drunk.

If nurses can make an argument that they are better, or at least just as good, then they have my vote to expand the market and let capitalism take effect.

How many clinical hours would these nps have?

I think articles about the bill have mentioned like 200-2000 hours at different times. That's gotta be like < 1/5 of MD training if you're using the 2000 #. That may be a conservative estimate - it could be an even bigger gap I'm just totally guessing here

My wife has been in practice 13 yrs. I guess that comes out to at least 22,000 clinical hours. Would that be enough? By the way, she has no desire to open her own clinic.

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Right we are totally for RNs and nursing care of patients

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Ha..I bet you are. I've met a handful of doctors over a 25 yr ER/Trauma nursing career who didn't seem to think they were too good to do what we do in the trenches.

And for the record, no, I do not think that NPs, PAs or CRNAs should practice autonomously.