A Nurse Practitioner's View

As the case for nurse practitioners is becoming increasingly obvious across the spectrum, predictably, the turf battles are rearing their ugly heads. Here is a blatant  example  of the rhetoric and follows a formula that I am going to reveal to spare any future time wasting reading them. Refer to the physician shortage and mention "Obamacare"  State the obligatory, "nurse practitioners are valued as part of the health care team"  Point out the differences in education and training (for example, physicians have 1 billion hours of training where NPs have nothing even remotely close to that)  Make the inference that quality of care will somehow suffer because of the differences in education/training (though there is not one shred of evidence that proves this) Make sure NOT to mention anything about patient outcomes being the same or better when NPs are primary care providers If there is mention of outcome studies, be sure to highlight how they are "old&qu