With the growing complexity of health care and diminishing availability of primary care physicians, many patients are seeing family nurse practitioners for their primary care needs. Therefore, the need for the nurse practitioners (NPs) becomes a must in the healthcare system. With the increased number of older adults, in merging of the new technologies into the healthcare system, the immerging of certain chronic and infectious diseases, all of these aspects have challenged us to re-examine the way health care system is operated and to make new changes. One of the changes that can make into the health care system is to let the PNs in playing their role in patient care management. The role of the nurse practitioners (NPs) in the healthcare industry
