NP’s are not DEI hires. A “Nurse” practitioner, is just that, a nurse! They practice under the guidance of a physician. Most in the olden days (1990’s) were very experienced nurses looking to fill a void in physician availability. Physicians wanted and needed the help to work less hours and have a life. The role of physician assistant was designed by physicians to also fill this void!
In today’s corporatization of health care, which has ruined it in my opinion, the Corporations are using nurse practitioners to be able to see more patients, faster and with less physician oversite to make more money! Don’t blame the nurses for wanting to make a little more money. The money NP’s make is tiny compared to what the Corporations and insurance companies make off of health care. It is obscene. Physicians are leaving in droves because they too are being robbed of the money they worked very hard for. Not by NP’S but by hospitals, insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Do hair dressers have a master degree? NP’s do! Please do your homework before you trash an entire group of very talented people. Nurses have an advantage over physicians in that they learn techniques of listening and teaching. Most physicians hire nurses to give discharge instructions to their patients. Nurses do a through history and assessment for the physician when you come to the clinic or hospital. Never had a physician doubt my assessments, only verify. Nurses and physicians work together. We are not competing with each other.
Hey Jane doe,
You obviously have a problem with NP’s. Why? You are blaming the wrong people. If there were not a need that NP’s fill then why are there so many of them.
Any good NP that is worth anything knows they aren’t practicing medicine. The programs for NP’S were never designed to compete or replace physicians. Like I said above, it was designed to assist physicians in the office. It was not until hospitals saw a way to see more patients and pay a whole lot less, that they began to hire them as providers. And I agree with others that point out if the pay for nurses was where it should be, you would not be hurting for nurses. Now corporations that have hijacked the hospitals are hiring lower paid foreign workers to replace nurses. You obviously are not a nurse!