Nurses, always indispensable, are becoming even more so by continuing on for advanced education and certificates in a wide variety of fields. They are able to extend the reach of doctors in all directions and often have the ability to function on behalf of patients based on their own knowledge and philosophy of care. One thing that makes Advanced Practice Nursing care different from doctors and surgeons is that often they have ongoing and continuing care for their patients, where (especially for surgeons), the doctors are involved in an episode of the patients' health, but may never see them a
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