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Becoming a Nurse Practitioner?

What are the differences between becoming a nurse practitioner and a family medical doctor? Plus and minuses?

  • I know that becoming a doctor requires many years of medical school and training and endless nights of studying. However, a nurse practitioner only needs 2 years of graduate school. ...show more

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    I don't know if this is right for the USA or not, but I would think both countries run the same- In Canada, NP's can diagnose, and they can prescribe too. A lot of more remote places are hiring NPs in place of doctors because of a lack of doctors. Nurses do more then "just take blood pressure".

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personally, I would rather be a doctor. They get paid higher, they diagnose, and they can do so much more than a nurse. The down side is that they work so many long hours. Nurses just work from 7-3,3-11,or 11-7. Nurses who work in doctors offices don't do as much, but nurses who are floor nurses or are in a specialty area do a lot more. I would recommend becoming a registered nurse though. Even though there is a few more classes you have to take, they can do more things, like insert ivs and give you medication, which nurse practicioners can't.

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