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.
A nurse practitioner is a highly trained registered nurse who is licensed by the state to practice in a specialty area such as primary care, mental health or pediatrics. Aspiring nurse practitioner students must be licensed registered nurses with a bachelor's degree. Nurse practitioners need at least a master's degree in nursing, but a doctoral degree may become standard as the minimum requirement in the future.