I am thinking about hiring a midlevel provider for my practice. Should I choose a physician assistant (PA) or a nurse practitioner (NP)?
Hiring a midlevel provider can be an important way of expanding the care you are able to provide in your practice. Nurse practitioners are trained in nursing schools, while physician assistant training programs are commonly aligned with medical schools and may be more interdisciplinary in nature. PAs are dependent practitioners working in close collaboration with MDs under delegatory services agreements. NPs practice more independently, but must follow standardized procedures that are developed in collaboration with physicians. PAs tend to have more varied health care backgrounds and, as a group, are more bilingual/bicultural. Both groups have their own professional organizations.These differences aside, studies that have compared NPs and PAs working in the same settings have not shown significant differences between the two. Therefore, your best course of action might be to advertise for either an NP or a PA, and hire the candidate best suited to fit in with the practice and meet your
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