nurse practitioner vs physician assistant
nurse practitioner
Definitions
noun
- a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
Examples
Nurse practitioners practice in a variety of settings, ranging from intensive care units to ambulatory care units, with varying degrees of acuity.
Or consider these demonstrations of outside-the-building thinking in health care: Work moving from hospitals to primary care, family medicine, and nurse practitioner groups.
When he retired from his work as an Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner, he decided to emulate English Botanist and Diatomist Dr. C. L. Odam and collect diatoms from tributaries.
