The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is writing to address the recent article, "The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners."
In a recent podcast, one of the authors of this article stated that “A bad reading of the story would be nurse practitioners bad, which is not what the story says.” However, the authors have failed to write a balanced story by cherry picking negative information and failing to report the enormous contributions nurse practitioners (NPs) make to patient care and across the health care system.
The authors have omitted the fact that NPs have consistently risen to meet our nation's health care challenges — including risking their lives with other health care professionals to treat patients during the pandemic despite a limited supply of personal protective equipment (PPE); setting up mobile clinics or going door to door in disadvantaged communities to provide care; being among the first clinicians to treat patients with opioid use disorder in hundreds of rural counties; and providing care in rural counties, after other clinicians left and hospitals closed, to ensure continued access.