Opinion: Nurse Practitioners Viable Alternative for Care
With primary care physicians "in short supply, both in California and nationwide," nurse practitioners can help fill the gap, Patricia Dennehy -- a professor at UC-San Francisco's School of Nursing and director of GLIDE Health Services in San Francisco -- writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece. Dennehy notes that NPs help reduce costs because they provide the same quality of comprehensive care as physicians but receive lower salaries.
- "Health Care Reform's Missing Link -- Nurse Practitioners" (Dennehy, Los Angeles Times, 2/21).