Comment by PJEEA on Nurses unconvinced by positive physician assistant evaluation

PJEEA — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 06:19:44 +1200

Nurse practitioners need to quit fighting the PAs and embrace the fact that both training models offer something different and valuable for primary care. PAs trained using the medical model often bring more generalized experience and are found in any and all fields of medicine. Nurse practitioners offer a more holistic approach to health care and are often more focused in their populations and approaches - primary care NP, pediatric NP, acute care NP or psychiatric NP. There is value in both! Countries all over the world are starting PA programs as they have all seen the benefit in having PAs in the health care work force. If current laws and regulations limit PAs in their ability to work more autonomously, it is not because they are not capable of providing the same services as NPs, but instead they are hamstrung by regulation. Most importantly, the regulations and laws need to be changed to allow both NPs and PAs to work more autonomously. Allow both to fill that Primary care provider role and growing health care gap. Both bring value and patient outcomes are wholly similar.

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Comment by PJEEA on Nurses unconvinced by positive physician assistant evaluation