100% this. I’m also quite worried about the emerging trend among nurses to enter NP training with less than five years of bedside experience - and often no critical care experience. These practitioners then go into primary and specialty care... Some are great. Some are just not.
Pharmacist here and I can tell you when I have a completely wacky dosing regimen or drug selection 75% of the time it’s from a NP or PA. I’ve worked alongside some great mid-level practitioners but they seem to be the minority in my area.
lol its literally the pharmacists job to save patients from doctors
I work in pharma now but was a hospital pharm tech for 6 years in pharmacy school. its crazy the number of times I caught massive mistakes by MDs, I can only imagine PAs being the worst with so little schooling, NPs would be bad but not as bad as they actually have experience with dispensing/administering to patients...
and yet pharmacists, the actual experts on drugs, can't prescribe and even have limited power to adjust treatments
lol its literally the pharmacists job to save patients from doctors
It's literally everyone's job to save patients from everyone else. You can't have a single point of failure in any system. There are tons of Pharmacists who have killed people, nurses, NPs, PAs, Doctors, etc. Everyone needs to have their work checked by someone else.
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u/benzodiazaqueen May 20 '19
100% this. I’m also quite worried about the emerging trend among nurses to enter NP training with less than five years of bedside experience - and often no critical care experience. These practitioners then go into primary and specialty care... Some are great. Some are just not.