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Descriptor English: Nurse Practitioners
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermeras Practicantes
Descriptor enfermeros diplomados
Entry term(s) personal de enfermería diplomado
Scope note: Personal de enfermería especialmente preparado para asumir múltiples responsabilidades en cuanto a la dispensación de cuidados sanitarios bajo la supervisión de un médico.
Descriptor Portuguese: Profissionais de Enfermagem
Descriptor French: Infirmières praticiennes
Entry term(s): Nurse Practitioner
Practitioner, Nurse
Practitioners, Nurse
Tree number(s): M01.526.485.650.640
N02.360.650.640
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009722
Scope note: Nurses who are specially trained to assume an expanded role in providing medical care under the supervision of a physician.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
PX psychology
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 76; was NURSE PRACTITIONER 1973-75
Online Note: use NURSE PRACTITIONERS to search NURSE PRACTITIONER 1973-75
History Note: 76; was NURSE PRACTITIONER 1973-75
DeCS ID: 9908
Unique ID: D009722
NLM Classification: WY 128
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1976/01/01
Date of Entry: 1975/07/23
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Nurse Practitioners - Preferred
Concept UI M0015088
Scope note Nurses who are specially trained to assume an expanded role in providing medical care under the supervision of a physician.
Preferred term Nurse Practitioners
Entry term(s) Nurse Practitioner
Practitioner, Nurse
Practitioners, Nurse



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