Nurse Practitioner Dr. Susan Apold on Fox & Friends Discussing NP-guided Care

Susan Apold, PhD, ANP, debating Nurse Practitioner-Guided Care on Fox&Friends 4/25/10 - http://npview.blogspot.com/
Dr. Apold is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Nurse Practitioner Association, New York State (The NPA - http://www.thenpa.org/)

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[cwmillerrn]

This was awesome. The NP was really well spoken. NPs are the wave of the future.

[mdaine01]

onlyseeadoctor and THEVILLIANOFTHEYEAR - you don't have clue as to what you are talking about. A Masters degree is minimum entry level for a new NP at this time and it will be a practice doctorate by 2015. You two can take your GEDs and go home now.

[paintem2000]

Don't kid yourselves from the MD perspective this is strictly a money issue. NP's acting independently means that MD's dont get paid for chart checks and "colaboration" however loose the term. This is why ER physician groups block the hiring of NP's over and over again but will readily hire PA's. No chart check, no money!

[jmm121884]

@hcolfer you basically pulled "triple" out of no where. I dont know what other kinds of research you are thinking about... obviously evidence based research. "disentangle"? basically that makes no sense at all. You seem to think oversight is means we less of a provider than a NP. PGY4-5-6, fellows Physicians are supervised even with hellacious training. I'll just finish with saying that you have no idea what you are talking about.

[hcolfer]

@jmm121884 the DNP is clinical with an emphasis on evidence based practice, hence the 'research' requirements. Cumulative clinical requirements for NP's triples PA requirements. By definition PA's are not able to disentangle themselves from physician oversight.

[hcolfer]

that rocks, get the word out NP's/DNP's provide excellent quality for patients and improve patient access to care. I find it interesting that the AMA cannot justify their fears with ANY data yet NP care has a 40 year track record of data and safe outcomes....

[rakrobn]

@Jasonat6034 Um no, try again. Independence implies that they do not require someone else to look over them, hence autonomy. Go to any dictionary and you'll see the definitions of "independence" and "autonomy" are the same. They are synonyms of eachother, if you look in the thesaurus.

[jmm121884]

@Jasonat6034 Perhaps they will receive more clinical rotation but it is still far less than a physician or PA. mostly. the doctorate is research. NP programs are designed to take experiences a nurse has and use that toward their "clinical exposure" I'm currently in a PA masters program and my friends currently in NP school hate it because there is way too much research and barely any patient exposure.

[Jasonat6034]

@Marieannie2 NPs can also obtain a Doctoral degree which, as a clinical degree, allows for more clinical rotations...

[Jasonat6034]

@jmm121884 weak training to compared to a Physician I agree... but to a PA Im not to sure...particularly DNPs who have more years of clinical training than PAs...