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nurse practitioner

nurse prac·ti·tion·er (plural nurse prac·ti·tion·ers)


noun 
Definition:
 
nurse doing some of physician's work: a registered nurse trained in primary health care to assume some of the responsibilities once assumed only by a physician such as the diagnosis and treatment of minor illnesses

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