nurse practitioner

1. 1.

   a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician

   SynonymsNPnurse clinician

   Broaderregistered nurse

Questions about nurse practitioner

What does nurse practitioner mean?

nurse practitioner means "a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician".

What is another word for nurse practitioner?

Close synonyms include NP, nurse clinician. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nurse practitioner a common word?

nurse practitioner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.