from The Clarion-Ledger

Nurse practitioners in Mississippi have taken a lot of heat lately, after several columns were printed in The Clarion-Ledger refuting our role to treat and manage patients. Most recently, a Flowood psychiatrist was quoted as saying, “Nurse practitioners are … in it, like most people, for the money.” He continues with “if the past is any indication, access to care in rural areas will be no better than what it is now.” He also believes that “quality of care is rooted in the amount of knowledge and training that one receives” and that nurse practitioners “have important roles and can be used in a primary care setting where budgetary constraints are cost-prohibitive for physician services.”

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