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.
Growing health care needs in California really demand the additional access to care nurse practitioners can provide, said Donna Emanuele, a Southern California nurse practitioner who is president of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners.nother eight states allow nurse practitioners to diagnose and treat patients, but require physician supervision for prescribing medications. The thrust is similar to Senate Bill 491, which bit the dust in August 2013. It would have allowed nurse practitioners to practice independently of doctors in certain settings.