Nurse Practitioners Perspective

• Can an NP Lose Their Job if a Doc 'Collaborator' Backs Away? A recent legal case exemplifies the difficulties posed by requirements in some states that nurse practitioners have a physician's oversight.
  Medscape Nurses, May 20, 2022
• How to Move From Defensive to 'I Have This!' An experienced nurse provides scenarios in which effective communication avoids confrontation and frustration despite an overwhelming workload.
  Medscape Blogs, May 18, 2022
• When Words Are Not Enough A psychologist shares her experience exploring a common thread tying patient and provider together.
  Medscape Blogs, May 16, 2022
• Dodging Potholes From Cancer Care to Hospice Transitions Switching gears from an all-out pursuit of active therapy to focusing on cancer symptoms in a palliative setting is often a scary transition for patients and their families.
  Medscape Oncology, May 10, 2022
• Nursing Is Not Gardening How categorizing nurses can lead to missed opportunities in growth and development.
  Medscape Blogs, May 04, 2022
• Take a Hike. It Saved My Career and It Just Might Save Yours Working during the COVID-19 pandemic in an ICU-stepdown, experiencing burnout, and the life lessons I learned.
  Medscape Blogs, May 03, 2022
• Managing Migraine in Primary Care: 5 Things to Know Key aspects and practical tips about migraine diagnosis and treatment for primary care physicians.
  American Headache Society and Medscape, April 25, 2022
• RaDonda Vaught: Victim, Felon, or Both? An experienced nurse discusses the implications of the RaDonda Vaught guilty verdict for nurses who may be angry or fearful for the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• Health Quality: Protecting Patients and Clinicians From Medical Errors Medical errors take thousands of lives annually while imposing exorbitant economic costs. Designing more effective and human-centered approaches can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  Medscape Blogs, April 20, 2022
• Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2022: Incomes Gain, Pay Gaps Remain Income is starting to recover for many physicians, who are still trying to overcome a very tough year.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, April 15, 2022
• Moral Courage in Nursing: Do You Have It? An experienced RN discusses the times in her career that caused the most heartbreak, including instances that defined the concept of moral courage.
  Medscape Blogs, March 31, 2022
• Looking Back on Omicron, Looking Ahead to Hardship How do we prepare to thrive in the next crisis? (It's not by learning how to suck it up better or doing more yoga.)
  Medscape Blogs, March 30, 2022
• Medscape Internist Malpractice Report 2021 Read about internists' malpractice experiences and the latest lawsuit trends discovered in our 2021 survey.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 22, 2022
• Medscape Family Physician Malpractice Report 2021 Read about family physicians' malpractice experiences and the latest lawsuit trends discovered in our 2021 survey.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 22, 2022
• Double Standards in Medicine Won't Allow Me to 'Calm Down' An experienced nurse discusses the frustration of female nurses working in a predominantly male environment.
  Medscape Blogs, March 15, 2022
• Filling Opioid Prescriptions Akin to a Sisyphean Task In the regulatory environment of the opioid epidemic, getting opioid prescriptions filled in a timely manner with the clinician's drug of choice can feel like a Sisyphean task.
  Medscape Oncology, March 10, 2022
• Nurses' Questions Answered: Bedside Manner When Training Longtime nurse and columnist Diane Goodman responds to common on-the-job scenarios faced in the workplace.
  Medscape Nurses, March 03, 2022
• We Are Failing People With Chronic Pain An experienced nurse discusses why the healthcare community is failing those who suffer from chronic pain, with huge implications for an aging American workforce.
  Medscape Blogs, March 01, 2022
• How 'Amazon Thinking' Is Reshaping Primary Care Timothy Hoff's new book, "Searching for the Family Doctor," examines the idealistic past and commercial present of primary care — and offers solutions for how physicians can reclaim the field.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 01, 2022
• PA Practice Is Well Suited to Support Rural Healthcare The benefits of PAs working as part of the medical team to improve health equity, and how to make that collaboration more effective.
  Medscape Blogs, February 28, 2022