The media sometimes suggests that physicians deliver better care than Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs). Is that true?
Not according to most scientific studies, which have found that care by APRNs is as good as or better than that of physicians. Some recent press articles have openly disparaged or devalued the care of APRNs relative to that of physicians. And the government’s slogan for their “Take Your Loved One to the Doctor” media campaign completely ignored APRNs. However, the following studies and articles show that the care provided by APRNs merits at least as much respect as that of their physician counterparts. Patients at nurse-lead atopic eczema clinic had greater improvement of symptoms than those at physician-lead clinic October 5, 2007 — A nurse-lead dermatology clinic for children with atopic eczema had a “significantly greater improvement in severity of eczema” than children who attended a physician-lead dermatology clinic. In one measure of treatment adherence, the children’s use of wet dressings was 76% in the nurse-lead clinic compared with only 12% for the children in the dermatolog
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