PAs already prescribe meds. Also doctors neglect patients and pass off patients and the buck as well. The difference is the hospital will actually try to protect the doctor, not the nurse.

I'm against the OP post but this is crazy. Doctors don't normally spend much hands on time in patient care.

If anything, this news is more implying how much worse understaffing is and how much more delegation of responsibilities is needed if they're going ahead with this anyways.

If shit like this scares you, then demand change. Call your legislators and demand a state mandate for safer staffing. Put more resources in bridging people willing to work this field.

Complaining about nurses not being doctors isn't going to do anything. As much as you claim people will clamor about doctors, doctors will poke their head in your room for 5 minutes in the morning and that's it. Nurses will be with you all day. Even when you need meds ordered right now, your doc will tell you and nurses the meds are ordered but he or she didn't order them for example and then you wait hours for the order. This shit happens daily. Ofc it largely depends on the individual but no doc is spending upwards of 20-30 minutes with you if it isn't an emergency.