Would you rather go to a doctor or a nurse practitioner and why?

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Would you rather spend your time helping people solve their problems or helping sick people get well again? Psych requires a lot of schooling. Nursing will involve working a med/surg floor for a w...

Of course, they are well educated. They are the future of primary care medicine. The number of primary care physicians is ridiculously low, and so, someone is going to have to take up the slack. ...

A nurse practitioner is highly trained. Almost one step from being a physician. They can prescribe medications, etc.

a CNP works under the purveiw of a doctor. A CNP can diagnose, and prescribe, and treat. The only thing a CNP is not licensed to do that a doctor is, is surgery. Personally, I'd rather see ...

The NP gets a masters from a school of nursing--they must have a bachelor's RN first. They are taught along a nursing model and therefore are not as common in many of the surgical specialties...

It's a published standard, so anyone with the training can do it. As the others have stated, it is usually done by the nearest and most hands-on trained person (ie nurse, or even paramedic ...

Oh boy. If you're a nurse you are going to the front lines where it is happening. That is where you are needed so that is where you are going. Now quit being a coward.