Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners and physician associates in contemporary practice
ABSTRACT This editorial introduces a special issue examining how nurse practitioner and physician associate practices have developed in parallel over several decades in the United States. Drawing on workforce, satisfaction, and training data from contributions to this issue, it documents substantial and roughly parallel professional growth nationally, alongside geographic and regulatory divergence. Survey data show that interprofessional collegiality is strongly associated with job satisfaction and retention, where …