Also,nurse practitioners get paid a lot less than a medical doctor and that means maybe we can provide affordable care."

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The group says the quality of medical care will drop if nurse practitioners are given more authority.

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Operations for people were postponed because facilities and medical practitioners were preoccupied and needed to serve influenza like diseases or flu in particular,".

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We write prescriptions." For years,nurse practitioners have been playing a larger role in the nation's health care, especially in regions with few doctors.

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He says studies on the effectiveness of nurse practitioners have been too small to be conclusive.

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Some mental health practitioners have even gone so far as to say that the morbid murals could convince some to take their own lives.

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Leslie Henry and Maura Constance are nurse practitioners at the Arlington Free Clinic in Arlington,Virginia.

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"That keeps pressure off the general practitioners, the primary care physicians, and the hospital doctors.

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States regulate nurse practitioners and laws vary on what they are permitted to do.

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Studies have shown nurse practitioners are better at listening to patients than doctors, and they make good decisions about when to refer patients for specialized care.

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"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.

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Jan Towers is Director of Policy for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

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

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Leslie Henry says she'd like to see nurse practitioners have more independence.

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"Nurse practitioners provide good care and certainly the studies have supported that.

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"Nurse practitioners have a lot of the same functions as doctors.

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Nurse practitioners are particularly prepared to work with those kinds of people and in those kinds of settings because of community health preparation that we get in our nursing programs."

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Most nurse practitioners are overseen by a physician.

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