A Nurse Practitioner's View

Just wanted to say Thanks to anyone who voted for my blog at Lydia's Uniforms site. My blog won the Top Nurse Blog ! Again, thank you for reading and voting. Stephen

There have been quite a few new NP student/NP blogs that have recently sprung up and I highly recommend that you check them out. Over the last few years, there has been a lack of NP representation in the blogosphere (other than a handful of NP authored blogs). There are plenty of well written physician and RN blogs in existence so it is nice to hear the stories, messages and advice from the NP perspective. I try to keep my blogroll on the right hand side of this page updated with new and timely blogs. Here are just a few to check out: Laura blogs over at Ask the Nurse Practitioner, http://askthenp.blogspot.com/ , and gives patient-centric answers to some common questions and sets the record straight on some myths health myths. Jeff blogs at NP Health Care - Nurse Practitioner Owned and Operated Practice, http://nphealthcare.blogspot.com/ , and shares his (seemingly frustrating) instances of owning his own NP practice in Texas. FNP Student blogs at Triumphs and Tribulations of a Student...

I love this. Fellow blogger (and I mean fellow only that he blogs, not that I can ever approach the level of "care" that he provides) just loves to rant about NPs . We aren't smart enough, we don't know what we don't know, provide good "nursing education" to our patients, we believe what we do is "good", are good at kissing boo-boos and holding hands, is at it yet again. (I think when his traffic is down, he decides to post about NPs and how "inadequate" he "thinks" we are to drive his blog traffic up.) It's really interesting - he harps on about how bad NPs are (i.e. we are mindless monkeys that can code a good level 5 visit) - he even has an "anonymous" NP post comments that claims their education didn't prepare her for the real world. I am so over it. I've left respectful comments on his blog only to get shot down. He continues to denigrate NP practice and gets his fellow "colleagues" t...