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| Take A PA and NP to Lunch Week: It's Time for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to Work Together |
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by David Mittman, PA - September 17, 2010
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 Provided by Clinician 1
I truly believe that NPs and PAs need each other. OK, let me expand the thought. We need to be in each other’s corner and work together whenever we can do it. Sometimes we can’t. Most of the time we can and should. Many of us still misunderstand each other. Some of us are still into “who is better or worse”. Some of us (who would not be reading this now) want to see the other profession vanish. Still and all, this represents a minority view which decreases each year. I have elaborated in other blog postings as to why I feel it is important for us to be communicating and working together when we agree. I won’t do it again now.
I feel most of politics is really local. When the people out there doing our professions best work decide to change in some way, change happens.
So with local change in mind, I will issue YOU a challenge. October 6th starts PA week-I will be traveling to Wisconsin to talk to a group of NPs and PAs and I am excited to be going. My challenge is for you to do the same except on a more local level. My challenge is for every NP to take a PA they may slightly know, or may have just decided to get to know to lunch. The PA would return the favor starting November 7th for NP Week with a follow up lunch. It does not have to be fancy, but simply a time to learn a bit more about each other. Of course my challenge does not end there. If you are a local, state or specialty NP or PA leader, extend the invitation to another group, another state leader or even maybe the entire Board(s) in one area to have dinner together. If you want a speaker, I’ll come-just pay travel costs. I have a great talk on the Similarities and Differences between our professions. I promise you will learn much you did not know.
If we really want to be creative we can all celebrate a mixed NP/PA Week somewhere at the end of October.
If you do venture out and try this bold move, please let me know at MittmanPA@gmail.com. I’ll let everyone else know and maybe we can begin the change many of us believe is needed.
Opportunity awaits. No better time than the present.
Dave has been a PA, and later NP, leader for thirty years. He strongly believes that NPs and PAs must work together to insure a better future for both professions. Most recently Dave has been busy launching another dream; Clinician 1, the first internet community for PAs and NPs. In October 2008, Dave was honored by the New Jersey State society of PAs with its “Lifetime Achievement Award”.
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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