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What is the difference between Physician Assistant and Nurse Partitioner?


when i look online it always says physician assisant or Nurse partitioner it makes me feel they both do the same work.

What about salary differences and respect.

A PA is not, as I understand it, empowered to write prescriptions whereas a Nurse Practitioner has met requirements far more stringent and is actually able to "hang a shingle" and diagnose ailments on his or her own, independent of a physician. The Physician's Assistant is just that, an assistant to a physician.

Nurse Practitioners are often found in rural areas where there are no physicians available and, in many cases, work with charitable organizations.

First it is practicioner not partitioner.
Both PA & NP can do many of the same things as a Doctor such as cut out small skin tags and put in or remove stiches. They cannot prescribe or dispense meds. They cannot develope a prognosis on their own they can only pass on and act on what the doctor arrives at.

NP- have lots of work to do. administer medications, calculate proper doses, etc.
PA- have work to do as well. They assist the doctors in what ever they need. Pass the utinsels. If the patient has an organ delivered to the hospital the PA is responsible for going to pick it up and making sure it makes it to the OR for the doctor in time. Yes even if the OR is on the 31st floor and the elevators are out, the PA has to run it up to the OR. The pay is super good as well. After that and the doctor doesn't have any more patients that day, you have a free day to lounge around and get paid. Real easy work. You just have to be in good shape.

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