The fact of the matter is that PA 's have job description and NP's have a scope of practice. The PA that posted this obviously has some type of regrets with his choice of PA over NP or maybe Physician. The fact is that a PA will always work under a Physician and NPs in many states are independant practitioner. I will grade 22 May 09 with my DNP ...

I am a currently a DNP student at University of CO, Colorado Springs, Beth El SON. I am in the very first class of DNP students for this program. It is entirely online. I am a graduate of the FNP program from this school and it has an outstanding SON. http://www.uccs.edu/~bethel/dnp.htm   Good luck   Jill