title: Staff privileges for nonphysicians. Part 2: A sampling of hospital programs and privileges for nurse practitioners and physician's assistants.
abstract: Physician's assistants and nurse practitioners, once thought to be a possible answer to the maldistribution of physicians, have extended their roles into the hospital setting and are now performing in a number of fields. Several programs utilizing to varying extents the services of these nonphysician health care workers are presented along with the different systems used in limiting their privileges.
mesh_terms: D008504:Medical Staff Privileges; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States