If nurses are to do more of the work of physicians, nursing education needs to drastically change. Nurses are mostly taught the how of nursing and not the why of medicine. If you look at the curricula of DNP programs, which are often touted as a way to get nurses practicing with lots of autonomy in places where they are short on physicians, they're heavy on nonsense nursing theory and light on things that actually matter like pathophysiology and pharmacology.
We actually do have a better model in the form of physician assistants. They're taught the same kinds of things physicians are taught, just in less depth.
We actually do have a better model in the form of physician assistants. They're taught the same kinds of things physicians are taught, just in less depth.