Table 4.

Specialist and Primary Care NP and MD Perceptions of NP Policy and Practice

	NP and MD Specialists					NP and MD Primary Care
	MD		NP			MD		NP
(% responding “strongly/somewhat agree”) N=	474		363		p value	505		467		p value
Nurse practitioners should practice to the full extent of their education and training	402	85%	352	97%	<.0001	384	76%	448	96%	<.0001
Nurse practitioners should be legally allowed hospital admitting privileges	83	18%	294	81%	<.0001	56	11%	397	85%	<.0001
Physicians and nurse practitioners should be paid the same fees for providing or performing the same services and procedures	39	8%	271	75%	<.0001	20	4%	299	64%	<.0001
The physicians with whom I work support restrictions on nurse practitioners’ scope of practice in my state	259	55%	113	31%	<.0001	237	47%	126	27%	<.0001
Full-time nurse practitioners should be required to work the same hours (including shifts and on call coverage) as full-time physicians	156	33%	206	57%	<.0001		NA		NA
Nurse practitioners’ scope of practice should be uniformly defined at a national rather than a state level	241	51%	293	81%	<.0001		NA		NA
The physicians with whom I work do not understand nurse practitioners education and training	146	31%	138	38%	<.0001		NA		NA