Carpe Diem discusses the Smack down...
There is a good reason you can't enroll in a truncated residency or online medical school experience. It's a shame the nursing profession sees otherwise. Training providers with an undifferentiated scope from medical doctors while presenting them to the public as equals in scope and capability is a sham.
I am waiting for the day that the nursing profession declares their intent to solve the general surgery shortage by training NPs skilled in the mastery of surgical skills through abbreviated online course work and perhaps a 1000 hour clinical internship. And then present them to the world with unlimited scope defined only by the comfort level of the surgical NP. Perhaps they can do all the easy appys and hand off all the clearly ruptured ones to the surgeon.
Easy cases should be easily handled by an NP with a 1000K hours of training. Clearly, that's the case.
Perhaps the solution to the nursing shortage is to expand the scope of nurses aides to perform duties in full scope and capabilities as certified RNs. Would all the nurses out there have a problem with your profoundly under educated and under skilled nurses aides being given the same independent scope of responsibility that took you four years of training to certify with?
If not, why not? Is the solution to the nursing shortage expanding the duties of nurses aides?
