This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is May 6, 2015, episode number 317.

And we're calling this one nurse practitioners.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

Nurses Week 2015 kicks off today.

And of course, we appreciate all of our nurses at nationwide children's hospital. And I'll take that a step further and say

that I believe I speak for my physician colleagues as a whole. When I say that we appreciate

nurses everywhere and in every capacity they serve not just here at nationwide

children's and no I'm not just saying that because my wife is a nurse although

she is and maybe saying that'll earn me some bonus brownie points although

knowing her I sort of doubt that it will in fact I may get negative points for

mentioning her on the show.

Anyway, while we do appreciate all of our nurses, we are going to focus on one particular type of nurse on our program today.

And those are nurse practitioners.

Now, I'm sure you've come across a nurse practitioner at some point in your health care journey,

whether that's a visit to your primary care office or an urgent care center or grocery store quick clinic or during a visit to a subspecialty

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