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Role of residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants during potential work stoppage
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Dr. Mitch Katz explains the potential roles and limitations of residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants during a possible work stoppage at NYC Health + Hospitals.
- Katz emphasizes that non-physicians would not be asked to perform physicians' clinical work beyond their scope of practice
- The system would rely on residents, supervising doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working within their usual roles
- He notes that nurse practitioners and PAs commonly work in emergency rooms, so their roles would not significantly change
- If necessary, H+H would transfer patients to other facilities to ensure safe operations
- Katz stresses that patient safety would be the top priority, and the system would not operate unsafely
Mitch Katz
0:55:55
Yeah.
0:55:55
I don't I mean, we we can't we we're not going to have non physicians do physicians' work for in clinical.
0:56:03
I mean, I'm a big fan of non physicians doing administrative work for physicians, but not clinical work.
0:56:09
So we would instead be relying on the residents who are still, you know, coming to work, and the, the supervising doctors.
0:56:19
And then as as you know from your own work, nurse practitioners and PAs commonly work in emergency rooms.
0:56:24
So it's not a it's not a new scope of work.
0:56:26
It might be a different side of where they're working, but everyone has to work within their scope.
0:56:33
We're not gonna we can't change the scope because of a strike.
0:56:36
If we have to transfer patients out, we'll transfer patients out.
0:56:41
If I mean, we we'll we will not operate on safely.