Talk:Mid-level practitioner
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Mid level practitioners include physician assistants, nurse practitioners (by various names, like advanced practice nurse, etc.) and occasionally refers to physiotherapist (PTs). While all nurse practitioners are RNs, RNs are not mid level providers unless they go get the extra 1.5 years of school to be a nurse practitioner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.229.236.211 (talk) 16:44, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
THIS ARTICLE IS ATROCIOUS. IT LITERALLY REEKS OF BIAS. CLEARLY, IT WAS WRITTEN BY SOME NURSE-PRACTITIONER OR PHYSICIAN-ASSISTANT TRYING TO CONVINCE THE READER THAT MID-LEVEL PROVIDERS CAN BE AS GOOD AS DOCTORS. THE BIAS IN THIS ARTICLE IS SO OBVIOUS THAT THE ARTICLE SHOULD BE REMOVED ENTIRELY, OR BE UN-PROTECTED SO THAT IT CAN BE EDITED. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.244.123.54 (talk) 03:44, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
updated
Corrected a lot of things and took out duplicated sentences. | pulmonological talk • contribs 06:39, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
neonatal and pediatric team members
a section needs to be written about the use of mid-level practitioners in critical care teams; especially in neonatal and pediatric critical care units. | pulmonological talk • contribs 06:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
correct some errors
change optometrists to mid-level practitioner per DEA website to avoid confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.106.22.82 (talk) 19:11, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
- sectioned off the DEA and other US-specific information, and provided more global definition with additional country examples + references for worldwide perspective Guptan99 (talk) 13:47, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
- also edited the definition on the "MLP" disambiguation page for more global perspective Guptan99 (talk) 16:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Physicians as the *ultimate* providers of health care
Unless one includes embalmers, there is no higher level of medical care than a responsible fully licensed Physician/Surgeon. DocKrin (talk) 03:27, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
WHO Definition
Can we incorporate the World Health Organization's definition of mid-level practitioner? That would be:
"A health provider: a. Who is trained, authorized and regulated to work autonomously, AND b. Who receives pre-service training at a higher education institution for at least 2-3 years, AND c. Whose scope of practice includes (but is not restricted to) being able to diagnose, manage and treat illness, disease and impairments (including perform surgery, where appropriately trained), prescribe medicines, as well as engage in preventive and promotive care.
POV Bias
This article seems to take a POV that is from that of Mid-Level Lobbyist. Wikipedia should be careful not to endorse biased perspectives.
ExtraEggWithNoodles (talk) 06:41, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia follows the best available reliable sources, even if some people think those sources are 'biased perspectives'. MrOllie (talk) 15:18, 20 November 2023 (UTC)