Keywords
nurse practioners, physician assistants, midlevels, prescriptive authority
Disciplines
Health and Medical Administration | Interprofessional Education | Other Medicine and Health Sciences | Public Health and Community Nursing
Abstract
Recent changes in legislation allow for non-physicians to independently perform many of the duties previously restricted to physicians. There are potentially benefits to these changes, but the author is concerned that some of the attributes of physicians induced by the long and rigorous training embedded in the profession may be absent in this new, independent health-care work force.
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