Do nurse practioners round with doctors?

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My title is my question. Do nurse practioners round with physiciana in the morning and check on patients?

Specializes in Surgery.

I occasionally round with the surgeon– If we both happen to be there at the same time but typically we round separately and discuss the patients together afterwards.

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Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

The NNPs in the NICU always rounded with the docs (in a large teaching hospital). Residents and interns come and go of course, but the NNPs are there year after year. All were experienced NICU nurses before training to be NNPs and did as much teaching of the residents and interns as the neonatologists did. I was extremely happy to have my kiddo covered by an NNP....ESPECIALLY in the month of July. With July just around the corner....I'm very happy to be retired!

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

As above, I round independently.

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