If we allow ourselves to be 'measured' by medicine we may be opening the door to be regulated by medicine. Since most DNP programs are currently revamped PhD programs that are not true clinical practice doctorate programs it would be difficult to really measure more advanced clinical knowledge when to curriculums do not address this. I think it is ...

Thank you for posting this! Great tips for reducing liability and a good foundation for how one practices. I have printed it out for easy reference and to share! Thanks for your insight and sharing your experience from practice in this crazy world.

An RN can that has been certified and trained to administer and supervise administration of chemotherapy. A nurse practitioner is an RN, if trained and certified it would stand to reason they could supervise this activity. In the practice I worked for a physician, NP, or PA needed to be in the office in case of a reaction, not really to supervise ...

I agree with many aspects of this discussion. I precept many RN students with varing degrees of critical thinking and clinical reasoning abilities. The ADN programs are definitely not what they used to be, quality has suffered in a haste to produce more RNs. The population that chooses to proceed to the direct path of NP without practice ...