VIEW FROM AWAY: Let Nurse Practitioners Work Without Supervision

VIEW FROM AWAY: Let nurse practitioners work without supervision

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The country's 171,000 NPs are trained to do many jobs that primary-care doctors do: diagnose problems and treat patients, order tests, prescribe drugs and refer to specialists. And with an average income of $ 99,000, they're a bargain; the average …
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Residency Directors Tout Benefits of Teaching Health Center GME Program

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I think we are different from the typical family medicine residency program because we are really heavy with mental health training, a lot of drug and substance abuse training, and a lot of chronic pain training. … The AAFP, along with the …
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Event opens eyes on abuse of pain killers

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Another class of controlled substance — amphetamines used for treating ADD/ADHD, like Adderall — are heavily abused but rarely deadly, he said. The number of women losing their lives to prescription drugs rose 400 percent … devotes his time to …
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Things heat up as Piers Morgan invites Larry Elder to "The Grill": "I think …

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The number one problem facing black people are the large number of black people born outside of wedlock." As the live interview continued, it certainly did not become any more congenial. "Just out of interest, how many languages do you speak," Morgan …
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