Poll results: What is the correct term for NPs and PAs?
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, June 16, 2009
At a Society of Hospital Medicine meeting last month, some nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) referred to themselves as NPPs (non-physician providers), while the doctors in the sessions commonly referred to this group as “mid-levels.” What’s the correct term?
Pat Spurlock, assistant director of professional affairs at the American Academy of Physician Assistants said it is more accurate to use the terms NPPs or NPs/PAs. To be more specific, some physician assistants identify themselves as PAs in hospital medicine to better describe their role.
HospitalistLeadership.com hosted a poll on terminology, in which readers could choose more than one answer. Below are the results at the time of publication:
- 225 of the respondents use the terms allied health professionals (AHP) or advanced practice practitioners (APP)
- 204 of the respondents use the terms nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistants (PA)
- 120 of the respondents use the term “mid-level”
- 8 of the respondents use the term non-physician provider (NPP)
- 3 of the respondents didn’t know what term to use
Read comments and join in the discussion on HospitalistLeadership.com.
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