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Poll results: What do you call nurse practitioners and physician assistants?

Last week we asked readers what terms their organizations use to describe nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The results are in (over 400 responses in total!), and here’s what you said:

(Note: Readers could select more than one response, so the sum of the percentages is over 100%)

• 42% selected APP (advanced practice professionals)
• 36% selected NPs/PAs (nurse practitioners/physician assistants)
• 23% selected mid-levels
• 1% selected NPPs (non-physician providers)
• .4% said they did not know which term their organization used