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The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include w… More >>
If the description of the PA profession is any indication of the caliber of this book, I wouldn’t trust anything in it. The author is clearly misinformed as to what PAs are (they are physician assistants, no ’s), what their capabilities are, what their training entails and what they are legally allowed to do. The author’s definition of a PA is disingenuous and if this serves as the legal basis upon which nurses are supposed to be making decisions, it is completely inappropriate and ultimately hazardous to patient care.
Rating: 1 / 5
Until the definitions of Physician Assistants are accurate and corrected in printed and spoken word, this text is untrue and thus, misleading and misrepresentive.
The trend is that PAs are now on Masters level– either at the onset of education or at the completion of the PA program. In this first decade of the 21st century, there will be a 100% increase in those PA numbers at the end of previous years. As much as some in both factions are loath to admit– we are on the same team and should and indeed, do work together.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was very disappointed to read Stacey Follin’s (ed) description of my profession, Physician Assistants. I was perplexed how she could be so wrong. Either she is ignorant of our profession or she has a political agenda, either of which would cause one to doubt anything that they read in the book. To continue to spread this type of mis-information only contributes to animosity that some nurses feel toward PAs. Nurses and Physician Assistants are on the same team, with the same goal of providing quality, compassionate health care to our patients at reasonable cost.
To correct her statements, PAs typically have BS degrees plus at least two years of patient care experience before entering PA school. PA-medical school has a standard of 24 continuous months of very intensive training. Most PA schools lead to the Masters degree. There has never been, in the history of our profession, a PA program that “last a few months.” We are not trained to “assist physicians.” We are trained to practice medicine. National Certification was never “available” for PAs but is mandatory, requiring 100 hours of CME every two years and a very difficult national board exam every six.
I was an instructor in both a PA program and a Nurse Practitioner program. In my experience the curriculum of the PA program, in general, was much more challenging than that of the NP, so the efforts to dismiss the PA training as inferior is in poor taste.
Rating: 1 / 5
This author of the section on Physician Assistants either made up her description of the profession out of whole cloth, or knew better but liked what she concocted more than she liked the truth.
To begin with, PA programs don’t last from “a few months” to 2 years. There is no place the author would have found that. They all last 2 years…or longer.
Secondly, the author’s statement that some programs may have academic prerequistes is just as demonstrably untrue. All PA programs have considerable prerequisites, and these have become more demanding over the years. Many programs require the applicant to hold a Bachelor’s degree.
Unfortunately, the gross inaccuracies of this section cast a very dark shadow over the rest of this edited collection. When a book has “legal” in its title and has so serious a misrepresentation, a reader would be wise to look elsewhere for facts upon which to base important decisions.
If you like your non-fiction books to come from the wild imagination of the author…go ahead, get this book. Try not to lose too much sleep wondering which statements in the book are true and which are like the statements mentioned above.
Rating: 1 / 5