Roles, Tasks and Practitioners

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Abstract
The accelerating entry of nurses, medical corpsmen and others of diverse educational and experience backgrounds into clinical areas once the exclusive domain of physicians is testing fundamental assumptions about the nature of primary care and the clinical process. Considerable uncertainty exists about the role and activity of these new clinicians. Nonphysician practitioners themselves are not always in agreement about who or what they are. Nurse practitioners, as a group, assert that they are basically nurses acting in an "extended" role. Physician assistants emphasize that their activities are delegated and assigned by their supervising physicians. All insist that they are not . . .