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Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are the quintessential midlevel provider, coming in various flavors such as FNP, AGACNP, and PMHNP. Numbering ~325,000 in the US, these midlevels' education often consists of little more than an online diploma mill degree and 500 hours of clinical exposure, amounting to less than 5% of a physician's training. Yet, many states allow them to practice independently without physician supervision or oversight.
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![Puzzled nurse practitioner consults Facebook for a patient with critical hyperkalemia](/content/images/size/w600/2023/09/NP-EKG-Vfib.webp)
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![Trio of butthurt nurse practitioners sue California attorney general for the right to call themselves "Doctor"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/07/palmer-vs-bonta-plaintiffs.webp)
![South Carolina newspaper names an NP as the "Best Family Physician"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/06/Palmetto-Primary-Care-Physicians-best-fnp-20230529.jpg)
![Border Patrol NP fails to send child with 104.9° fever to hospital, child dies in custody](/content/images/size/w600/2023/06/CBP-NP-death.webp)
![Imposter Doctors, the sequel to Patients at Risk, has been released](/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/Imposter-Doctors-feature.webp)
!["Elite" NPs get butthurt about Pennsylvania Medical Society's promotion of physician-led care](/content/images/size/w600/2023/03/pms-white-coat.webp)
!["Doctor" of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine](/content/images/size/w600/2023/02/my-dnp-trump.webp)
!["Doctor" Jakeyla Reed, DNP flaunts her critical care "training", takes dump on Internal Medicine physicians](/content/images/size/w600/2023/02/dr.jakeylareed_7201987654198512939_snapshot_00.08.940.webp)
![California DNP gets slammed with $20,000 fine for calling herself a "doctor"](/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/sarah-erny-dnp-cover.webp)
![Eagle River Wellness via Eagle River Good Deal Magazine](/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/eagle-river-wellness-jessica-joyce-np.webp)
![Halloween midlevel meme compilation](/content/images/size/w600/2022/10/medical-pumpkin.webp)
![Women's Health NP is "at a lost" on urinalysis and cultures](/content/images/size/w600/2022/10/urinal-np-meme.webp)
![Pompous PMHNP cries about salary](/content/images/size/w600/2022/10/butthurt-cream.webp)