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So, as a family nurse practitioner,
the three big pillars
that kind of separate it
are going to be you
can assess patients,
you can diagnose them,
and then you can treat them.
00:10
As a nurse, you receive orders
and you follow a treatment plan
that someone has
already set up for you.
00:15
Yes, you are looking at the
patient, you're assessing them,
you're making sure everything
nothing's really changed, right?
You haven't seen anything
drastically different.
00:22
You can make recommendations.
00:23
But at the end of the day,
you aren't the one
that makes the choices
pulls in all the data and says,
"Hey, we're going to steer the ship
in a totally different direction.
00:30
So that's been the
biggest thing to adjust to
as a nurse practitioner
is now you're the one collecting
all the data.
00:36
Sometimes that's
assessments from nurses,
you're pulling in that
you're getting labs,
you're telling someone,
"Hey, this is the diagnosis
we're going to run with
and here's the actual thing
we're going to do to treat it."
So you're more steering the ship
versus implementing all the things
in order to make it
navigate the right way.