"Given that there is going to be a need for primary care providers, and nurse practitioners are highly qualified primary providers who have been underutilized to date.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

With the shortage of primary care physicians, expanding the authority of nurse practitioners.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

We need to think more clearly about whether it is more primary care physicians that we need or, instead, more primary care clinicians: nurse practitioners, physician assistants and the like.

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We have to make sure we have not only the doctors and nurses and nurse practitioners, but the primary care, the gerontologists, the folks who are going to take care of the entire population.

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Many primary care clinics already weave together physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses.

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