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PRINCIPLES REGARDING ALLIED HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS

AND PERSONNEL

The American Medical Student Association:

1.             URGES that state certified nurses, nurse midwives and midwives be given more responsibility in the care of patients;

2.             URGES the increased training of paraprofessionals within each medical field and specialty, such persons to be certified by a national examination and licensed by the states to aid physicians under close legally sanctioned supervision in the more efficient rendering of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques;

3.             SUPPORTS increased funding of training of nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, nurse midwives, midwives and similar professionals, and ENCOURAGES that their collective expertise be employed to maximum efficiency; (1997)

4.             SUPPORTS non-physician health and hospital workers in their efforts to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining;

5.             URGES the strengthening of cooperative efforts between Medicine and Nursing to collaborate on a joint solution to hospitals’ nursing shortages. (2005)