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Ok thank you for both of your responses. I was just thinking, since nurses are cheaper to hire, I would think that hospital corporations would lobby for them to have more rights treating patients. I wonder why they don't, though. Thank you for your thoughts, though.

Hi, I was just wondering, what if Hospital Corporations--such as HCA or Tenet for example--want to make their nurses expand their scope of work. For example, many nurses can do some anesthesiology but many doctors groups are opposed to them and are lobbying the government to limit them. Another example is primary care, where nurses want more independence. So, what if a major hospital corporation wants their nurses to do more work? Will doctor lobby groups sue the corporation? Or can a company lobby a lot more powerfully than doctor groups? Will the company be allowed to expand the work a nurse can do? Thank you

Thank you all for explaining and confirming. I was just wondering, can nurses do procedures, like outpatient surgeries? What about more complicated ones? Thank you

Hi, I just have a question. I just overheard a conversation the other day in class, and I was extremely shocked at what I heard. This pre-med student was taking to someone else. She said that she was volunteering at a clinic and the doctor hardly ever showed up. I believe it was a private cardiology clinic. She said that the doctor would show up for maybe a few hours, talk to the nurses, and go away. some days the doctor would not show up. The nurses would see patients, prescribe medication, etc. Any questions, the nurses would just call the doctor. Any complicated patients, the doctor would see (this student thinks). She was saying that the doctor makes all the money. (And it sounded like this was a big motivator for her, like she approved of it). I am guessing that these nurses were nurse practitioners. Is this true? Can this really happen? Like, the nurses do mostly all the work, but the doctor take all the money? I live in Texas, and is this legal? Thanks