Interesting Physician Perspective On NPs

[PMFB-RN]

I am not an NP. I am a full time rapid response nurse at a teaching hospital. This morning I stopped in to residents office to update the night residents on what had happened with their patients and what I had done. They were in the middel of sign out to the day team including several interns, residents, the chief resident and the attending. After I was done an intern speaks up and says "PMFB you should become a PA!". This was met with a rousing round of "NOooos" & "no way!" from the residents and attending. The intern looked confused. The chief resident leans over to her and says "PAs are at the bottom of the medical word. PMFB should become and NP, they are at the top of the nursing world".

The attending and other residents all readily agreed. I thought it was an interesting insight into physician thoughts about mid levels.

[SycamoreGuy]

Haven't read through the whole thread since I last commented, has anyone ever argued that perhaps 4 years undergrad (generally unrelated to health care), 4 years med school, and 4 - 5 years post doctoral training might make someone over qualified for primary care? I mean I know we are a narsasistic society and think that we need the best but would you demand a masters level engineer to fix your car?