The rise and rise of nurse practitioners

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The rise and rise of nurse practitioners

Michal Boyd
University of Auckland associate professor in the School of Nursing Michal Boyd came from the US where there are 250,000 nurse practitioners, to New Zealand where there are very few

The brakes are off, and nurses are jumping at the chance to get to the top of their scope, Alan Perrott reports

It’s often not until they experience working with an NP that it’s, “ah-ha, that’s what they do” After years of frustration at slow progress for n