What is the difference between a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician's Assistant? Give details, please!!?

Thanks in advance, I am trying to analyze something! Please give all the negatives and positives of each career, also. Thank you

Goodness, yes there's a difference. A nurse practitioner is an RN who has a Masters Degree. They can usually write prescriptions, perform pap smears, and do other procedures that regular RN's are not qualified to do. They make good money.
A physician's assistant is someone who just takes vital signs and does basic procedures that a non-licensed person can do. Probably not much money in this one.

YIKES--someone has MEDICAL ASSISTANT confused with PHYSICIANS ASISTANT!

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