Nurse practitioners in prevention and health education.
The Where? How? Who will pay? and Who will provide? of preventive medicine and health education can be answered. And a promising answer is the family nurse practitioner, who may be able to handle 60 to 80 percent of routine tasks normally done by physicians and to provide health education as a part of routine care.
D002140:California; D006266:Health Education; D007882:Legislation, Hospital; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States