[NPInfo] Re:NP Laura on Fox News!

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Folks, please understand that I have forwarded myself as a nurse.  I deliberately called myself Nurse Laura to get away from the "Dr. Laura" tag with which many wanted to label me (no thanks to the popularity of Laura Schlessinger).

I don't permit people to marginalize or denigrate nursing.  We create the environment in which we practice.  If we continue to allow our colleagues to perpetuate the "just a nurse" image we do ourselves a great injustice.  

Nurses rank above physicians in trusted professions.  We need to take that and run with it.  There is a subtle shift away from physician centered care.  People (patients) are seeing that different providers are capable of providing their health care. I stand firmly in the face of "would you rather see..." and say "I can do that and do it well--give nurses credit for what we do"..  We need to take credit (and give credit) for what we do.

I am a nurse, if you want to see a physician you need to go somewhere else--may I help you make an appointment? ;-D

Laura, NP, Missouri



Carla Anderson <carla_rayne at yahoo.com> wrote: It is awesome what Laura does, and overall is a pretty good article, but it still makes it sound like she is a "nurse" working where others dont, and that she has "some skills" that are helpful in rural areas... Laura you are awesome, I just get mad at these writers, they need to put in bold Nurse Pracititioner, and spend a paragraph on it, and it need to be in the Headline too, not just Nurse.. CarlaNP

Jeffrey Hazzard  wrote:  We MUST jettison the 'nurse' name. This video makes it clear to me. We need a new name and so do PAs. 
Jeff, NP




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