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| NP and PA Waiting Room Posters from Clinician 1 |
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by Dave Mittman, PA - October 29, 2009
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 Thanks to Dave Mittman and Clinician 1 for these waiting room posters. Feel free to click on and print on a color printer.
NP Waiting Room Poster
PA Waiting Room Poster
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| Charles R. Cashmere Adamo (Houston Texas) |
on 21 Nov 2009 at 9:53 am |
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| I believe to have this available in a spanish format as well would be highly beneficial to all concerned and I feel it is well done. |
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| zeus (Massachusetts) |
on 12 Nov 2009 at 4:14 pm |
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| The PA poster sounds like a Hallmark greeting card...Sooo milk toast..This doesn't help our professional identity problem at a time when healthcare needs us most.... |
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| PA in Santa Fe (Sant Fe, NM) |
on 11 Nov 2009 at 4:14 am |
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While I appreciate the compassionate tone of the poster, I fell it lacks in giving an adequate definition of a Physician Assistants role in health care. We are practioners of medicine
and patients need to feel confidant that we are capable of diagnosing, prescribing and treating illness. The scope of practices that PAs perform needs to be adressed from surgery to psychology. |
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| Anonymous |
on 10 Nov 2009 at 9:11 pm |
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| Great poster. Thank you. |
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| whereyouare (NY) |
on 08 Nov 2009 at 9:04 pm |
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| The posters are very sweet, but what I want a poster to educate patients about is my professional competence as the right arm and colleague of the physician.. These posters feed into the perception that "The PA is very nice when nothing is wrong but I have to see the doctor because this is a REAL medical problem," We are medical clinicians, trained next to medical students and practicing medicine. |
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| PA Poster |
on 06 Nov 2009 at 1:40 pm |
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I think that the first statement on the poster needs to say something that indicates that my first responsibility is to address, diagnose and treat your illness'; the probable reason you came to see me. Because most people come when they are ill and when they feel better then and only then can they attend to possibly changing health habits that may be having a negative impact on their health.
As a registered nurse to physician assistant practioner, I can say that these posters are intended to have that warm touchy feely amibience that NPs are trained so extensively to exude and I think do a disservice to good, basic medical care with excellent assesment skills that, frankly, I find missing in too many NPs. The PA poster should not have the same focus as the NPs because we are different and I do not like being put in the same box. PAs have a strong medical focus and while I find that my 15 years as a RN provide a wonderful background; touchy feely cannot replace good medicine. |
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| cosmoblivion (San Diego) |
on 27 Oct 2009 at 6:27 pm |
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The poster is a great idea, but the poster itself fails for me in several ways:
35% of Americans are illiterate, & more than that number are illiterate in my practice...this poster is written in script and written in english higher than the 5th grade level;
the message is vague & diffuse;
the message does not adequately or succinctly describe how an NP actually provides care that makes a difference while being care that the patient can trust.... for the reasons stated above, as well as the message is stated more like a fluffy toilet paper ad than like it is talking to real humans. |
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