So physicians are under the state medcial boards and nurse practitioners are under the nursing board. I know they say that NP's don't practice medicine, but rather we practice "nursing" but frankly I think this doesn't make sense. First of all, If I meet a patient or discuss with people about my role, I'd like to tell them that I practice medicine.
So what is up with the two separate boards? Can somone explain to me why NP's, who are basically doing everything a physicain is doing, not trying to become part of the state medical board and fighting to get leaders as part of the medical boards instead of creating our own NP nursing board to practice "nursing" instead of medicine?
Or why don't they just make a new board called the board of healthcare providers or something. Is it mostly an Ego thing that there needs to be two separate boards when we are all practicing medicine as healthcare providers and should be governed under the same laws and such?
