In the UK, because serious medication errors have been made from the confusion between milligrams and micrograms when micrograms has been abbreviated, the recommendation given in the Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines is that doses of less than one milligram must be expressed in micrograms and that the word âmicrogramâ must be written in full, and ...
Summary: In 2010, approximately 56,000 nurse practitioners and 30,000 physician assistants were practicing primary care in the United States, according to research commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
NURSE PRACTITIONER Background: As more health care moves beyond the hospital to other sites in the community, policymakers are looking especially to one type of advanced registered nurse -- the nurse practitioner (NP) -- to help meet the escalating need for high-quality and accessible health care.pecialties: Most nurse practitioners work in a clinical specialty, such as pediatrics, family practice, adult health, neonatal care, ob/gyn/women s health, psychiatric/mental health, oncology, occupational health, school health, gerontological care, and emergency and acute care.