Radical or routine? Nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, and physician assistants as abortion providers

Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants in physician offices.

The expansion of health insurance coverage through health care reform, along with the aging of the population, are expected to strain the capacity for providing health care. Projections of the future physician workforce predict declines in the supply of physicians and decreasing physician work hours for primary care. An expansion of care delivered by nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse m...

The roles and supply of nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in North Carolina.

Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are health professionals qualified and licensed to perform a wide variety of medical activities, including the direct provision of patient care.1 Although they are trained in different types of schools and licensed by different entities, in North Carolina PAs and NPs carry out very similar duties and have nearly identical authority to pra...

Expanding roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants as providers of nonvascular invasive radiology procedures.

PURPOSE To evaluate national trends in nonvascular invasive radiology procedures performed by advanced practice providers (APPs), focusing specifically on nurse practitioners and physician assistants. METHODS Nonvascular invasive radiology procedures commonly performed by APPs at our 2 largest hospitals were used to identify procedure groups for national trends analysis. We mapped categories ...

Expanding Roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Patient Satisfaction: Comparing Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Physicians

bottom right WENDY RAY is the assistant to the Assistant Regional Medical Director for Quality Management and Systems for NWP in Portland, Oregon. Patient acceptance and satisfaction with care has only recently received attention in the medical literature. Interest has grown concomitantly with increasing competition among health plans: Because they need to attract and retain members, health pla...