Nurse Practitioner 

A midlevel provider who went to school for 6-7 years. Many have an MSN but the DNP degree has been introduced to try to blur the lines with Physicians who instead train for a minimum of 11 years. NPs use this obscurity in an attempt to validate their claims for unsupervised practice. Additionally, many graduate nursing programs are degree mills boasting 100% acceptance rates and 100% online coursework. NPs serve an important place in healthcare but are best paired with a supervising Physician.

Nurse Practitioner: "I wanted to be a doctor but the MCAT wasn't open-book, so I went to the University of Phoenix MSN program with online exams".

Nurse Practitioner by DrHouse297 June 27, 2019

Nurse Practitioner 

NP = Online Trained Midlevel Provider

The NP was a nurse practitioner or non-Physician provider

Nurse Practitioner by Honesty's Not Dead April 8, 2020

nurse practitioner 

a little understood profession by the public an advanced nurse praticioner or ANP is an individual who has completed graduate school for nursing and does very much the same job as a doctor but makes more and is payed by whatever company they work for instead of by the pateint from insurance companies. they can determine diagnosis and write perscriptions to treat pateints. in certain specalties they report to a doctor once a week so they can check the paper work.

hi, im a nurse practitioner, whats the problem
patient : when am i going to see the doctor
ANP: you wont ill be treating you
pateint: so your a doctor
ANP: no im a nurse pratitioner
pateint: so why am i not seeing a doctor
ANP: becouse i can give you the same treatment as a doctor, now what are you here for?

nurse practitioner by ANPnurse January 4, 2010

nurse practitioner 

A professional who worked through school as a registered nurse, spent exponentially more time with patients than an ivy league prepped medical doctor fresh out of residency, coordinates care better than experienced physicians, knows what happens after a referral is sent, works directly with insurance companies, practices holistic care, still cares about the patients they see, and at a fraction of the cost of a burnt out physician. Like, by a lot. Want less expensive healthcare? go nurse practitioner.

America: "Man, these costs are astronomical!" Shouldn't it be less expensive to provide primary, specialty, non-surgical, preventive care to a larger population?"

Nurse Practitioner: "Yes."

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Physician: "Screw rural healthcare, I'm movin to the city!"

Nurse Practitioner: "See ya!"

nurse practitioner by Private Practicality February 26, 2020

Nurse-Practitioner 

V.

1) to “correct” someone in an overly confident and grandiose way asserting “facts,” while being simultaneously completely wrong and completely unaware of being wrong.

2) to “fix” a situation with full confidence and reassurance, but actually make it worse without realizing it.

N.

An undertrained person that is made to do the work of a fully trained expert without the required knowledge/skill and without knowing that he/she is actually not an expert.

V.

1) “I studied the Civil War for over a month, but when mom asked me a question about it, the guest nurse-practitionered right over me.”

2) “I took my engine to be repaired; unfortunately though the mechanic nurse-practitionered it and then overcharged me for the service.”

N.

“My pipes broke and I thought I hired a plumber, but a nurse practitioner showed up.”

Nurse-Practitioner by thegoodoctor April 11, 2022