Page Dunbar

The doctor is out

I am writing in response to Rauda Tellawi's Oct. 27 column, "Should nurses be the new doctors in town?". As a fourth-year Nursing student who will finish roughly 650 hours of hospital clinical experience in May as an undergraduate, I find Tellawi's suggestion that care provided by an advanced practice nurse is "settl[ing] ... for less" very disappointing. An undergraduate nursing degree is required for admission to an advanced degree program.