" practitioner "

 [ "Nurse Practitioner" ]

1: A midlevel provider who went to school for 6-7 years. Many have an MSN but the DNP degree has been introduced to try to blur the lines with Physicians who instead train for a minimum of 11 years. NPs use this obscurity in an attempt to validate their claims for unsupervised practice. Additionally, many graduate nursing programs are degree mills boasting 100% acceptance rates and 100% online coursework. NPs serve an important place in healthcare but are best paired with a supervising Physician.

  * e.g.,  ... Nurse Practitioner: "I wanted to be a doctor but the MCAT wasn't open-book, so I went to the University of Phoenix MSN program with online exams". 

 [ "Nurse Practitioner" ]

1: NP = Online Trained Midlevel Provider

  * e.g.,  ... The NP was a nurse practitioner or non-Physician provider 

 [ "Nurse-Practitioner" ]

1: V. 1) to “correct” someone in an overly confident and grandiose way asserting “facts,” while being simultaneously completely wrong and completely unaware of being wrong. 2) to “fix” a situation with full confidence and reassurance, but actually make it worse without realizing it. N. An undertrained person that is made to do the work of a fully trained expert without the required knowledge/skill and without knowing that he/she is actually not an expert.

  * e.g.,  ... V. 1) “I studied the Civil War for over a month, but when mom asked me a question about it, the guest nurse-practitionered right over me.” 2) “I took my engine to be repaired; unfortunately though the mechanic nurse-practitionered it and then overcharged me for the service.” N. “My pipes broke and I thought I hired a plumber, but a nurse practitioner showed up.” 

 [ "yaoi practitioner" ]

1: A gay or bisexual male.

  * e.g.,  ... He's going out with Suzie Smith? Wow...all this time I thought he was a yaoi practitioner.  

 [ "yaoi practitioner" ]

2: Synonym: Slash practitioner

 [ "Parent Practitioner" ]

1: A parent, guardian or authority figure; who practices the art of: * Parenting * Advocacy (for family & community needs) * Balancing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  * e.g.,  ... As a Parent Practitioner; I advocate on the federal level for programming and gap fillers I experience in my family and community. 

 [ "Parent Practitioner" ]

2: A comprehensive approach to a family leader, building whole families through purposed interconnectedness of the varied intersections of any individual family or family construct.

 [ "nurse practitioner" ]

1: a little understood profession by the public an advanced nurse praticioner or ANP is an individual who has completed graduate school for nursing and does very much the same job as a doctor but makes more and is payed by whatever company they work for instead of by the pateint from insurance companies. they can determine diagnosis and write perscriptions to treat pateints. in certain specalties they report to a doctor once a week so they can check the paper work.

  * e.g.,  ... hi, im a nurse practitioner, whats the problem 

 [ "nurse practitioner" ]

1: A professional who worked through school as a registered nurse, spent exponentially more time with patients than an ivy league prepped medical doctor fresh out of residency, coordinates care better than experienced physicians, knows what happens after a referral is sent, works directly with insurance companies, practices holistic care, still cares about the patients they see, and at a fraction of the cost of a burnt out physician. Like, by a lot. Want less expensive healthcare? go nurse practitioner.

  * e.g.,  ... America: "Man, these costs are astronomical!" Shouldn't it be less expensive to provide primary, specialty, non-surgical, preventive care to a larger population?" Nurse Practitioner: "Yes." ***************** Physician: "Screw rural healthcare, I'm movin to the city!" Nurse Practitioner: "See ya!" 

 [ "medicare practitioner" ]

1: A doctor who is more concerned with getting his medicare form signed than he is finding out what a patients health issues are. They will often write a prescription based on a few cursory questions to the patient, without actually examining them or seeking adequate information to diagnose health problems.

  * e.g.,  ... I went to see what I thought was a health care professional (doctor) because I had been suffering bad headaches for a couple of weeks, turns out he was nothing more than a medicare practitioner, he handed me a medicare slip to sign while he wrote out a prescription for painkillers and told me to attend an emergency room if they did not go away. 

 [ "aesthetic practitioner" ]

1: They are registered nurses who, with advanced training, have extensive knowledge of cosmetic therapies. Their qualifications allow them to deliver or assist with a range of cosmetic treatments, including: Skin rejuvenation, such as pore reduction and blemish removal. Anti-wrinkle treatment.

  * e.g.,  ... They went to see their aesthetic practitioner instead of a proper doctor