Shannon Whitten has worked as a rural nurse practitioner for 20 years in Sandersville, in eastern Georgia.
She’s an advanced practice registered nurse, also known as an APRN. Some of her colleagues at the same level have been recruited by New York to help out during the city’s COVID-19 crisis, Whitten says.
She notes that APRNs can work in the Big Apple without supervision by a doctor. But they cannot do so here.
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