HealthLeaders Media January 20, 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 care delivery.
Nurse practitioners’ (NPs) scope of practice will potentially be expanded once again as the Centers for...
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