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 registered nurse who has gone on to complete graduate-level nursing education. You could spend about six years in total training for this position, but you may need to acquire an additional 1-2 years of work experience before applying to graduate programs for nurse practitioners. Schools offering Family Nurse Practitioner degrees can also be found in these popular choices.