nurse practitioner AmE

Will the child sometimes be seen by a nurse practitioner?

I thought: Finally, an article about nurse practitioners and what they do.

What I hear is, nurse practitioners want to act like doctors.

A school nurse practitioner was later created at Colorado as well.

They are given a medical screening by a nurse practitioner.

Most nurse practitioner programs in the state do offer such degrees.

Nurse practitioners are licensed by the state in which they practice.

"It is a great experience having a nurse practitioner clinic on site."

Nurse practitioners might not be able to provide the same quality of services that doctors can.

Most of the managed care companies pay the nurse practitioners only when they work for a doctor or medical group.

The landscape for nurse practitioners, however, may be changing in the city.

This job of case management often falls to nurse practitioners.

Estimates of how many nurse practitioners there are in the state range from 400 to 4,000.

For example, nurse practitioners screen patients before a physician can be seen.

The patient had been sent to the emergency room earlier that day by his nurse practitioner.

The primary care article did not mention that there is a growing use of nurse practitioners.

I realized that becoming a nurse practitioner would be perfect for me without having to go to medical school.

I enjoyed being a nurse practitioner and having my own client base.

With one agency, he said, fewer staff specialist nurse practitioners would be needed.

"We're suddenly under pressure to prepare a lot of folks as nurse practitioners."

Services would be administered by a nurse practitioner with doctor supervision.

But their shaky legal status has many nurse practitioners worried.

This was the first nurse practitioner program in the United States.

Several are not doctors at all, but nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Ideally, many say, nurse practitioners should be used as part of a health care team, not to replace a doctor.