 physician assistant career is finished. nurse practitioners are superior and have beaten p.a.s. what's up you guys it's adana i am back with another video for you guys so guys like can we just all get along can we can we all get along can we can we get along oh my gosh like i don't even understand this should not be a competition between n.p.s and p.a.s and m.d.s and anybody else in the healthcare profession we're all trying to do the same thing we want to help people we want to heal people so why can't we just work together i got this really like interesting comment about like the p.a. profession is down the hill and i wanted to read this for you guys because you know it was comparing like p.a.s and n.p.s and i just kind of wanted to shed a little bit of light on that the negativity that is kind of like promoting because at the end of the day we should be uplifting each other like it's a healthcare profession we're in this together it is like a family so let's all parts of the family or the body work together for the greater purpose right but let me read this comment for you guys and then you guys can leave your comments in the comment section below and let me know what you think about what this person said so this comment was written to me it said physician assistant career is finished nurse practitioners are superior and have beaten p.a.s n.p.s are better training um i guess should have or have better training is probably what they were trying to say but you know whatever um i don't i don't think they're an n.p. but um n.p.s are better training have better earnings are our preferentially hired and have greater confidence by the general public and government in the d.o.d which is the department of defense and department of veteran affairs all n.p.s were made independent however all p.a.s were told they should be dependent um this decision was made because the federal government doesn't trust p.a.s and therefore require all p.a.s to have their work closely supervised at every step because they might hurt someone however the n.p.s can fully practice all day long without a physician oversight and the d.o.d and v.a because of their supervised uh their superior training and superior level of experience so they have there you have it um so i guess they're saying you know in the v.a they don't have to be supervised so because they're superiorly trained there you have it that's why n.p.s are better um the government doesn't trust p.a.s why would an undergraduate spend over a hundred thousand to go into a career that is going to be dead in 10 years either go to medical school or go to n.p. school do not go to p.a. school unless you want to find a new career in 10 years now william mcneil mr mcneil um i like i have to wholeheartedly disagree with you first off the p.a profession this year is celebrating 50 years of being in existence okay so i'm pretty sure there were like nurses and um uh maybe physicians and and other people that were saying these exact same words that you were saying you know 30 40 years ago why go into a profession that's going to be non-existent within 10 years well it hasn't it hasn't come non-existent yet it hasn't become that yet and furthermore more and more p.a.s are being um are being like pushed out into the public are being utilized um there are more and more p.a. schools being opened up every year because this is a profession that is on the rise it is growing like wildfire and i really don't see it stopping in 10 years i only see it expanding to even more autonomy when it comes to uh 10 years down the line so there are some things that i did agree with you on that um nps were preferentially hired and the reason why nps were preferentially hired was because um last year or the year before that in many states they got their autonomy but prior to that they'd still required a physician to sign off on different things um but last year they got their autonomy and they can now practice full scope of autonomy without any type of supervising at all so yes they were being preferentially hired because why would you hire on a p.a. that needs to be supervised um as opposed to an np that doesn't need to be supervised i'm only hiring one person as opposed to now trying to hire two in a sense so yes you're right with that but that's not the case any longer if you go and do some research um on otp that is optimal team practice it is a law that has been put into place to give p.a.'s a more autonomous full scope of practice in a sense um yes we're still collaborating with with physicians but we don't require them to sign off on any of our orders we actually can carry our own insurance with respect to our clients and patients that we're seeing we can follow specific patients we can follow our own patients furthermore everything is decided at the practice level so when it comes to being a p.a. if i'm collaborating with a physician like my scope of practice is the the sky is the limit and i only see things getting better in the future i only see as getting full autonomy in the future yes nps go to school for four years as most um p.a.'s do they have bachelor's degree prior to going to their master's degree um and p's go to master's go and get their master's degree so do p.a.'s and now p.a.'s also do have a doctoral degree as the dnps do have as well so our learning is pretty much like the same and i know that there are some p.a.'s that were nurses prior to becoming p.a.'s or in other professions that were in healthcare prior to becoming p.a.'s that have amazing knowledge base so to say that on a like just a large scale you're just over here doing this overarching statement that nps are more superior that's like inaccurate i mean i don't think it's a matter of superior or not i think we're all in this for the same end goal which is to provide care and so when it comes down to it it's about how are you providing care be be you an np and md or p.a.'s if you're providing poor care then you suck like you're a horrible provider um and i know some you know md's that aren't the best providers they don't have the best bedside manner and it goes the same for p.a.'s and nps as well so every by every profession it's all dependent on the people in that profession so for you to say that i wholeheartedly disagree with that statement furthermore talking about the the do d in the va yes i mean maybe those particular um scopes of the federal government don't necessarily allow p.a.'s to practice autonomously or maybe they just haven't um voiced that as yet i don't know i really i'm not in the do d i'm not in the va so i'm not really sure what's going on there but i do know what's happening outside in the world with respect to the p.a.'s profession and when it comes down to it the p.a.'s profession is on the rise we are growing um our autonomy is growing everything that we're able to do is growing uh hashtags p.a.'s can do that just letting you know and um we're doing we're doing our things so i just suggest mr mcneill you go ahead and do a little bit more research on um the p.a.'s profession um and even the np profession as well and so you can see the similarities that run through both professions and what we're able to do and what we do do patient client um preferably and in with respect to how they feel each person performed yes um i think there is a perception you're right there's a perception that you know because you're an assistant that you're um less than but you know that that perception is changing um because of all of the bomb p.a.'s out there that are doing some great advocacy work for the profession so um hopefully you know others like you who may believe this uh you know have the same train of thought or same belief will um come to understand the profession a lot more and um you know probably some of the p.a.'s that you probably thought were physicians that did a really great job for you when you were in the er um you know would like to just feel a little bit more appreciated and hopefully you can go ahead and be like thank you for taking care of me when i was sick because it's usually a p.a. in the er that is taking care of you when you're seen um at those ungodly hours of the night so just a little bit of information for you hopefully that helped you get a little bit more clarity um and if you have any more questions or comments you can go ahead and leave that in the comment section below i'll i'll be sure to respond um maybe make another video about it i don't know but i thank you for that comment um i really do hope that you go ahead and just you know do a little bit more research on the profession and that um your eyes are opened a little bit more to what we as p.a.'s can do and what we actually do do for the public all right thank you guys so much for watching if you have a comment or question please leave it below please tell me what you thought about this comment um and then what you think about p.a.'s and m.p.'s and m.d.'s as well i want to know and um we can just have a conversation in the comment section all right thank you guys so much for watching i will talk to you guys later bye