Trumping professional roles: collaboration of nurse practitioners and physicians for a better U.S. health care system.
Professional turf battles have yielded variations in the scope of practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) that obstruct collaboration with physicians that would enhance patient care. Patients would be better served if NPs and physicians worked together to develop better combined models of education and service that take advantage of the benefits of both professions' contributions to care.
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D014481:United States