What is the difference in nurse practitioner and physician's assistant?

In ways of education rigor and money making power and whatever else.

Well a Nurse Practitioner can function on their own with out working under a doctor...at least in most states. While a Physician's Assistant can not they can only do what the doctor they work for will allow them to do. That would be the biggest differance I believe.

NP's can only practice independently in 13 states, in the others they choose to phrase it as "working in collaboration with physicians" but it still leaves them with the same privileges as PAs Report It

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