I thought: Finally, an article about nurse practitioners and what they do.
Will the child sometimes be seen by a nurse practitioner?
What I hear is, nurse practitioners want to act like doctors.
Most of the managed care companies pay the nurse practitioners only when they work for a doctor or medical group.
Nurse practitioners might not be able to provide the same quality of services that doctors can.
Nurse practitioners are licensed by the state in which they practice.
They are given a medical screening by a nurse practitioner.
Estimates of how many nurse practitioners there are in the state range from 400 to 4,000.
The landscape for nurse practitioners, however, may be changing in the city.
For example, nurse practitioners screen patients before a physician can be seen.