{"id":39717,"date":"2013-08-25T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jerusalem_post_the_nurse_practitioner_is_in\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T02:15:00","slug":"jerusalem_post_the_nurse_practitioner_is_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39717","title":{"rendered":"(Jerusalem Post) The nurse practitioner is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries \u201d\u201c from Florence Nightingale to ER \u201d\u201c the medical professionals who treated patients have been nurses and physicians.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in a world with a dearth of such trained individuals, new professions in the healthcare system have emerged to attempt to fill the void. While the expansion of health professions in the US and other Western countries has been rapid, recognizing and welcoming nurse practitioners (NPs), physicians\u2019 assistants (PAs) and nurse anesthetists (NAs) has been a very slow process, especially in a country like Israel whose union-oriented conservative medical establishment is not enamored of change.<\/p>\n<p>The NP is Israel\u2019s first new medical profession to be recognized by the Health Ministry, which organized a first, year-long course that turned 19 veteran nurses from around the country into recognized NPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Health-and-Science\/The-nurse-practitioner-is-in-324140\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries \u201d\u201c from Florence Nightingale to ER \u201d\u201c the medical professionals who treated patients have been nurses and physicians. Yet in a world with a dearth of such trained individuals, new professions in the healthcare system have emerged to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39717\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,119,104,133,565,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-israel","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}