Elizabeth Mendeloff, CNP and ISAPN member, was featured during a news item on television's Channel 23 WIFR in Rockford, Illinois.  Click here to view her news clip.  Below is an excerpt from her interview.

 

"I perform complete physicals. I treat and diagnose acute and chronic illnesses, and prescribe medications." Mendeloff says her goal is to teach patients about healthy lifestyles and diesease prevention.

 

There was a time when patients were hesitant to sit up on the exam table if they were seeing a nurse practitioner. Today it's different. Mendeloff says, "Ten years ago when a person would come into the clinic and they were told they're going to see the nurse practitioner, they would be like, what I want to see a real doctor. Now ten years later I think a lot of times people will come in and be like wait a minute I want to see the nurse practitioner."