Improving Access to Primary Care: The Growing Role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

Abstract

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) provide primary care. NPs and CNMs take health histories, provide complete physical exams, diagnose and treat many common acute and chronic problems, interpret lab results and other diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and teach and counsel patients and their families about health and illness.

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