[NPInfo] NYS Definition of NP's

[Dena]

Steve--
"If diagnosis of illness and physical conditions and the performance of
therapeutic and corrective measures" isn't practicing medicine, what is???
Dena Galler


The practice of registered  professional nursing by a nurse
> practitioner, certified under section six  thousand nine hundred ten of
this article,
> may include the diagnosis of  illness and physical conditions and the
> performance of therapeutic and  corrective measures within a specialty
area of
> practice, in collaboration with  a licensed physician.... 
> So in NY, NP's  technically do not practice "medicine."
> Take care,
> Steve, NP in  NY

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