Pharmacy Times April 4, 2023
For decades, pharmacy schools, residents, and fellows have been training to work alongside physicians, but that has not prepared us for what is coming.
Growth of Nurse Practitioners Prompts Shortage of Registered Nurses
There are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States, with nearly 90% of them being certified in primary care.1 Thanks to a long-term, unwavering march toward independent practice and bolstered by COVID-19, at least 11 states have approved or are in the process of approving independent practices of NPs. The arguments for independence should sound familiar to pharmacists. Namely, a primary care shortage, especially in rural and underserved areas, justifies increasing the number of access points in the health care system.
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