HealthLeaders Media January 22, 2025
Nurse practitioners may soon be able to classify chest radiographs, according to the CDC.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) wants to determine whether they should allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to become B Readers.
– Currently, only licensed U.S. physicians can become B Readers, and as of October 2024, only 184 U.S.-based physicians in 35 states are licensed B Readers.
– If nurse practitioners become eligible to take the B Reader exam and become licensed B Readers once they pass, that will once again expand the role that nurse practitioners play in...
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