Relationship Between Nurse Practitioner and Medical Practitioner

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medicine. For many physicians and their associated societies, it is about a perceived potential loss of income. Others are concerned that nurse practitioners will go beyond their scope of knowledge and practice boundaries and endanger patient care. It ends as it begins though, with misunderstanding the role and the opportunities for all.

Inadequate government involvement is part of this lack of understanding but the saddest aspect of this comes from the heart of nursing itself and that is the inadequacy of readily available descriptive information about the role and practice options, standardized and legitimized education, and disregard that many in the nursing profession have for advance practice nursing.

While it is time to change that, this paper will focus on the importance of the healthy relationship between nurse practitioner and MD. At present, nursing wants to collaborate, medicine wants to supervise. In many states and in Canada, the nurse practitioner must be in a defined collaborative agreement with a particular physician, a group of physic...