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.
1 The majority (69.5%) of NPs see 3 or more patients per hour 3. 2  Malpractice rates remain low; only 2% have been named as primary defendant in a malpractice case 3. 3  Nurse Practitioners have been in practice an average of 10 years 4.4  The average age of NPs is 49 years 4.here are more than 205,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) licensed in the U.S. 1. 1  An estimated 17,000 new NPs completed their academic programs in 2013-2014 2. 2  95.1% of NPs have graduate degrees 3. 3  96.8% of NPs maintain national certification 3.