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.
There are more than 234,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) licensed in the U.S. 1. An estimated 23,000 new NPs completed their academic programs in 2015-2016 2. 97.7% of NPs have graduate degrees 3. 89.2% of NPs are certified in an area of primary care 3. Nearly three in four NPs are accepting new Medicare patients and 77.9% are accepting new Medicaid patients 4.