How Do I Find Out C&p Nurse Practitioner's Qualification

[Rockhound]

The C&P Examiner who did my last exam for secondary problem associated to my SC Fractured Nasal Bone and Deviated septom was a Nurse Practitioner.

I want to learn her qualifications, ie: Schooling, Licening, Training, anad such. How do I find out all these things?

I want to compair my Primary Care Dr's Qualifications to that of the C&P Examiner. My thought's on this are that the examirer is only trained on the basics, that is to say they do the examination by the book, asking question and checking things that are written down or rather a form is displayed on the computor and they do what it asks them to do. My thinking is that anyone with any medicat training could with minimal training can do what it is asked of them to do, thatThis exam is no more or no less than what I did as a corpsman.

As I have said before, I have given physicals and conducted sick call, All of which I would document my findings in the Veterans medical files, of my findings. The forms I used were very much like those for induction physicals and when I held sick call, it was by my self and I can emagine that some of my findings were used by some to show that they had had problems that began in the service. All this done with no more supervision than what the C&P Examiner had and in most cases when I held sick call, I was the only duty medical person, diagnosing and treating miner problems and referals to a Dr. when I felt their was a need.

Sorry for the length of this post, I just felt the need to show that I had similiar duties while int the service, that a nurse practioner would do as a civilain.

Getting light outside so I guess I had bettter go, my cats will be wanting to be fed soon. LoL

Rockhound Rider

[*Bergie*]

The C&P Examiner who did my last exam for secondary problem associated to my SC Fractured Nasal Bone and Deviated septom was a Nurse Practitioner.

I want to learn her qualifications, ie: Schooling, Licening, Training, anad such. How do I find out all these things?

I want to compair my Primary Care Dr's Qualifications to that of the C&P Examiner. My thought's on this are that the examirer is only trained on the basics, that is to say they do the examination by the book, asking question and checking things that are written down or rather a form is displayed on the computor and they do what it asks them to do. My thinking is that anyone with any medicat training could with minimal training can do what it is asked of them to do, thatThis exam is no more or no less than what I did as a corpsman.

As I have said before, I have given physicals and conducted sick call, All of which I would document my findings in the Veterans medical files, of my findings. The forms I used were very much like those for induction physicals and when I held sick call, it was by my self and I can emagine that some of my findings were used by some to show that they had had problems that began in the service. All this done with no more supervision than what the C&P Examiner had and in most cases when I held sick call, I was the only duty medical person, diagnosing and treating miner problems and referals to a Dr. when I felt their was a need.

Sorry for the length of this post, I just felt the need to show that I had similiar duties while int the service, that a nurse practioner would do as a civilain.

Getting light outside so I guess I had bettter go, my cats will be wanting to be fed soon. LoL

Rockhound Rider

If the person was a doctor than you will need to find what state they are licensed in. You can then look at the state medical boards web site and check license verification, this will give you their specialty and whether they are board certified in that area of medicine. They don't have to be board certified to work in a particular area, it just means they have completed the residency for that area. As for NP's you cannot look up what area they specialize in, it is not required by the board. PA's I don't know, but they are most likely similar to NP's. It is always good to look up the area of expertise because I've heard of instances where a pediatric doctor was conducting C&P exams for ortho claims. It happens and it's actually good because you can challenge it in court.

Hope this helps,

Bergie

[john999]

You know a doctor signs off on the PA's exam. Attacking the qualifications of the PA is not as good as attacking the findings of the exam. I had a PA do an exam on me for a heart condition. It was an awful exam. I looked up the schedule for the type of exam I was supposed to have and the PA left out major things, so I appealed and got more evidence and got 0% raised to 60%. If you want to win you should get new evidence. Get your PCP to send you for testing. If a specialist at the VA will say your problem is most likely secondary to an SC condition you win. I got my PCP to send me for some more heart tests and this is how I won over the PA's miserable exam and the VA's 0% rating.

[Testvet]

attacking C&P examiners is a waste of your time because the VARO just doesn't care there thinking and their justification is all VA employees are "qualified" to provide care and examinations as John pointed out a pysichian has to sign off on any exam done by NPs so a supervising doctor has "justified" whatever the NP does. Hell I had a NP do a cardiac C&P and their doc signed off on it, one of their C&P docs that did a cardiac C&P on me was a board certified radiologist, they all reiterated the party line that there is NO literature that links cardiac problems to PTSD despite the overwhelming studies available at the VA;s own NCPTSD website they actually called it "internet garbage" in one of my denial letters.

Focus on evidence the supports your nexus to your medical issue and your service make the dot to dot conenctions for them or at least for the BVA judge to be able to read there are some issues if you had the head of Walter Reed write the C&P they would still deny you, they want to force the decision to be made by a BVA Judge so they can be able to say we didn't do it, the BVA did it we aren't allowing those type of issues to be approved. Getting issues secondary to PTSD is like pulling teeth from dinosaurs one the raters are determined to deny your claim it is best to get it out of the VARO and on to the BVA as long as you have the evidence you need to have the BVA award the claim.

[Vync]

I had a C&P examination in March of this year. My examiner had quite a few degree/diploma/certification's mounted in picture frames all over the office. It helped take out some of the guesswork.

[halos2]

The way to dispute this is with, as others here posted, via a good IME/IMO. Your state professional registration and licensure department via internet search will basically let you know the person has an active/expired license when issued and if they were ever disciplined, if so the reasoning and time frame.

Fighting against the errors of a nurse practioner has been a MAJOR claim/project I have been fighting for almost 7 yrs...In my case the NP was fired from EVER doing C&P's at my VAMC! She had so many errors, and so many complaints from vets, their investigation lead to her dismissal from the C&P department and she cannot ever do a C&P exam at this facility NOT EVER!!

The problem here is although removed from the C&P dept her spouse is one of the administrators at this VARO, so they still have her employed there, but in what capacity and what dept I do not know, however, it took the VP FOIA Officer 4 days to locate her whereabouts in the facility.

The patient advocate was instrumental in providing me with the valid information, and where to proceed with my endeavors.

Utalize your VAMC Pt Advocate, hopefully you will have one who truly works with the Veteran's interest at heart. Unfortunately they cannot get another C&P ordered from the VARO. Even the Medical Director of the C&P department cannot get the VARO to order a new C&P exam either.

The VAMC dismisses a NP for wrongdoings with C&P exams, removes her from doing these ever, yet the VARO screws vets by utalizing her defunct exams to deny claims!! ;)

I had 2 IMO's/IME's from 2 physicians, and have been through the ringer as the VARO still prefers to use her piss poor exam as Godly factual information and continue to DENY!! BVA remanded it back to the VARO, and it sits in the dusty room waiting to be reviewed....I wait for years for justice...Good luck fighting your claim with EVIDENCE. B)