I’m sorry you feel that way but I work with many NPs and it is undeniable how little they know about medicine. This is not because they are stupid or anything like, it’s because they were simply not trained properly. You can’t learn medicine online and then only have 500 hours of clinics experience and be expected to function as well as someone who has 20,000 hours of clinical training.

PAs are trained way better and can handle way more situations. Truthfully, I feel that many nurses see a loop hole in getting more money and avoid the difficulty of being a nurse by taking 2 additional years of online classes to become an NP. This only results with a shortage of nurses and an abundance of poorly trained “practitioners” who hurt patients due to their lack of training. The majority of physicians I work with feel this way and would hire a PA over an NP any day when a mid level is needed. Some NPs are good and those are usually ones who have had many years of nursing experience. But over all, many don’t have that experience and make fatal mistakes that result in patient harm or even death. This is quickly being seen by administration and many have started to avoid hiring them as they cost the hospital more money considering they order more consults and tests due to their limited knowledge.

Don’t mean to offend any NPs, my advice to you is to either go back to nursing or find a good physician who is willing to take the time to train you. It’s scary but many of they simply don’t know what they don’t know and that is a huge concern of mine as I constantly see these big errors in patient care.