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Nurse practitioners
Nurse practitioners are nurses with advanced training to provide basic medical care services similar to that offered by a physician.
Dr. Jeff Livingston reviewed this
24 year experience in Obstetrics and Gynecology
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What can nurse practitioners do?
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What does a nurse practitioner do?
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A 43-year old female asked:
What can I do if a nurse practitioner wants to change my current medication and I don't want to have it changed. ?
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A 24-year old female asked:
I have an appointment with a nurse practitioner for a physical. What are some things that they won't be able to answer or do for me that my dr would?
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A 30-year old asked:
What is neonatal nurse practitioner?
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A 42-year old asked:
How much salary do neonatal nurse practitioners make?
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A 39-year old asked:
What is your opinion on nurse practitioners as medical providers?
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A 36-year old male asked:
Do all docs & nurse practitioners need to have liability insurance to practice?
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A 34-year old asked:
Do nurse practitioners do prostate exams?
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A 44-year old asked:
What is the difference between an oncology nurse practitioner and an oncology nurse?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Will medical power of attorney allow my husband to accompany me to my visits with psych nurse practitioner? She refuses him to b w/ me
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A 29-year old female asked:
How qualified are nurse practitioners? I see an fnp when i go into docs for illness etc. I'm always nervous they will miss something or get it wrong.
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A 31-year old asked:
How can I know how qualified are psychiatric nurse practitioners?
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A 41-year old asked:
Are psychiatric nurses and psychiatric nurse practitioners the same thing?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Can a doctoral level nurse practitioner seek certification as a psychopharmacologist? Or, is that just for medical doctors?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Should I become a nurse practitioner or physician assistant?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Would you consider a nurse practitioner at a dermatologist office to be an expert on melanoma?
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A 44-year old male asked:
Is st Augustine grass same as Timothy grass . I highly allergic to st Augustine makes me itch nurse practitioner says its same I need it confirmed bec I about to get allergy shots?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Can a nurse practitioner administer a blood transfusion ?
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A 31-year old asked:
I think I have yeast infection - can I get nurse practitioner to test me?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Do doctors prefer to work with nurse practitioners or physician assistants?
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A 40-year old asked:
What's the difference between a nurse practitioner and a physician's assistant?
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A 36-year old asked:
What is the difference between neonatologist and a neonatal nurse practitioner?
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A 35-year old asked:
What is the difference between a "psychiatrist" and a "psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner"?
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A 40-year old asked:
My wife has rectal bleeding that comes and goes. She went to a nurse practitioner and found no hemmorhoids. What could cause this?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Does it makes sense that I can only see a pain doctor once a year? The other times I need to see the nurse practitioner. Never heard of this.
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A 18-year old female asked:
My nurse practitioner told me to take melatonin 3mg the thing is i have a past history of complex partial seizures should I worry about taking it ?
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A 28-year old female asked:
I'm due to have a colonoscopy for suspected IBD. A nurse practitioner is due to perform it. Should that concern me? Rearranging might take too long.
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A 35-year old male asked:
Is it common practice for specialists, such as urologists, to have new patients seen only by a nurse practitioner and not see the patient themselves?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Ekg machine interpreted negative t waves but nurse practitioner said my EKG was perfectly normal. Should i get second opinion since machine said diff?
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