Nurse practitioners in New York must choose a specialty, such as family health, pediatrics or psychiatry, while physician assistants are trained as medical generalists, said Donna Ferrara, who ...

For example, in Arizona the nurse practitioners have had independent practice unsupervised since 2001, and in 2017 there were fewer than 11% of nurse practitioners in rural areas of the state.

Specialists earned an average of $344,000 in 2021, down from $346,000 in 2020. Nurse practitioners: The mean annual salary of a nurse practitioner is $118,040, according to data from the Bureau of ...

Nurse practitioners need 24 hours of intensive training to receive state waivers allowing them to provide MAT, but even after they need approval from their supervising physician.

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that by 2030 there will be a shortfall of up to 49,300 primary care physicians in the U.S. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are able ...

In total, physician assistants complete approximately 2,000 hours of clinical training prior to graduation, and nurse practitioners may have as little as 500 hours.

All told, the state will be short more than 3,000 primary care doctors by 2025. The nurse practitioner and physician assistant workforces are growing more rapidly than the supply of physicians, a ...

Between 2021 and 2031, nurse practitioner jobs are expected to have increased by 46 percent, while physician assistant positions are projected to jump 28 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor ...

The proportion of health care visits delivered by physician assistants or nurse practitioners is rapidly increasing and now accounts for one in every four visits, according to the results of ...

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that by 2030 there will be a shortfall of up to 49,300 primary care physicians in the U.S. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are able ...