[NPInfo] NYS Definition of NP's

[Pat Camillo]

"It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such 
thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of 
limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither 
can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, 
which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound. So it is with 
medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed; medicine, so far as 
we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but does nothing more. 
And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best 
condition for nature to act upon him."

Notes on Nursing
Florence Nightengale, 1859

Pat

Pat Camillo PhD,RN,APN,C
Certified Nurse Practitioner in Women's Health,
Gerontology and Menopause
Carmenta Health
1 Kalisa Way Suite 103
Paramus, New Jersey 07652
(201) 265-9042

Manhattan Menopause Center
225 East 64th Street Suite C-2
New York, New York 10021
(212) 308-4988
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dena" <galdena at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NP Info'" <npinfo at nurse.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: [NPInfo] NYS Definition of NP's


> 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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