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Relationship Between Nurse Practitioner and Medical Practitioner Why Can't We All Just Get Along: The Relationship between Nurse Practitioner and Medical Practitioner There is a patient in front of you. You are a nurse practitioner; the individual beside you is a medical practitioner. Both of you have the same information. Both of you have the same goal, or do you' Do you want wellness for the patient, including the social, emotional, nutritional, and familial aspects of that patient’s life or do you want the injury/illness/infection gone and the patient back to routine living' They seem like divergent views, the nursing model and the medical model, but as the environment of healthcare changes, can a path be found so both can thrive' Introduction In Creative Nursing, Tim Porter-O’Grady (2003) discusses that we are moving into a new healthcare relationship with our patients, one that will increase the patient’s expectation of positivity and will require all professions to work in a seamless fashion. Healthcare is becoming patient–owned (Porter-O’Grady, 2003) and that type of pattern will necessitate “working ‘together’ rather than working ‘alongside’” (Davies C, 2000). We have moved into nurse, nursing, care, practitioner, medical, medicine, practice, patient, physician, health, role, relationship, march, journal, healthcare, 2002, 2000, treatment, retrieved, primary, physicians, model, education, different, between, advanced, 2004, while, time, practitioners, one, new, guidelines, authority, about