USUAL Double speak about advanced Nurse practitioners

"ANPs are not supplanting doctors but complementing them and enhancing multidisciplinary teams' capabilities. This will need our active contribution to developing appropriate local roles and job descriptions for ANPs—they will be most successful in a mutually supportive multiprofessional team where there is good understanding of and ‘buy-in’ to their roles. The roles will need local tailoring and specification. Are there existing pathways or protocols that ANPS can support to provide less variable and higher quality care for frail older people?"

Advanced nurse practitioners in the care of frail older people: a challenge for geriatricians?

1. E. C. Pulford

+Author Affiliations

1. Department of Geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9PU, UK

1. Address correspondence to: E. C. Pulford. Tel: (+44) 01865234176. Email:Claire.Pulford@ouh.nhs.uk

""ANPs are not supplanting doctors but complementing them and enhancing multidisciplinary teams' capabilities."

I can understand ANP's doing  primary care or helping a specialist but the idea of sending  a patient to see a specialist and then having the patient see an ANP is really dumb in my opinion.It may be  better  that  i treat the  patient  to the best of my ability.

what really irks me is in some hospitals privileges are given  to  the  ANP or PA based on the  power of the specialist.At the same  time   they refuse the  same  privileges to  a board certified internist.