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Nurse Practitioners

"Nurse Practitioners" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Nurses who are specially trained to assume an expanded role in providing medical care under the supervision of a physician.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nurse Practitioners" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nurse Practitioners" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020 and 2021
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