[Nurse Practitioners and Physician Associates in Swiss Healthcare].

Q4 Medicine

Praxis Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.23785/TU.2025.08_09.002

Jessica Gaylord, Judith Weiss, Janette Ribaut, Frank Zimmermann, Sonja Beckmann, Sabina De Geest, Isabelle Gisler, Anja Hermann, Kathrin Horlacher, Rahel Käufeler, Susanne König, Jörg Leuppi, Anita Manser, Oliver Mauthner, André Nienaber, Franziska Perini, Melanie Capaul-Schmocker, Michael Simon, Caroline Stade, Markus Wepf, Franziska Zúñiga

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Introduction: Physician Associates (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are healthcare professionals with advanced clinical skills who play a key role in strengthening integrated care and mitigating physician shortages. PAs hold a CAS or MAS (15-60 ECTS) and support physicians by taking on specific responsibilities (task shifting) to improve efficiency and ensure high-quality care. NPs have a Master of Science in Nursing (90-180 ECTS), and work with physicians (task-sharing) to care for a defined population, establishing diagnoses, managing treatment, and providing self-management support. PAs and NPs work in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Their training, competencies and scopes of practice differ; allowing them to complement each other. National regulation and tariff structures are necessary for both professions to reach their full potential.

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[瑞士医疗保健的执业护士和医师协会]。

医师助理（PAs）和执业护士（NPs）是具有高级临床技能的医疗保健专业人员，他们在加强综合护理和缓解医生短缺方面发挥着关键作用。执业助理持有CAS或MAS（15-60学分），并通过承担特定责任（任务转移）来支持医生，以提高效率并确保高质量的护理。NPs拥有护理学硕士学位（90-180学分），并与医生合作（任务共享）护理特定人群，建立诊断，管理治疗并提供自我管理支持。专科医生和专科医生在住院和门诊都有工作。他们的培训、能力和执业范围各不相同；让他们相互补充。国家规章和关税结构对于这两种职业充分发挥其潜力是必要的。

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