nurse practitioner

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nurse practitioner (plural nurse practitioners)

  1. (medicine) A professional nursing designation recognized in some jurisdictions, denoting a person who is fully qualified as a nurse and who has additional qualifications and authorization to provide diagnoses and/or treatments, including writing prescriptions.
    • 2020, Dr Amir Khan, The Doctor Will See You Now, Ebury Press (2021), pages 14–15:
      Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who have done further training and are qualified to diagnose and manage acute and undifferentiated medical problems.

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