title: Physician assistants and nurse practitioners are not interchangeable.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Hass is an assistant clinical professor in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California at Davis and a member of the JAAPA editorial board. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hass
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000193:education