Health Insurance Glossary. DEFINITION: Limited-benefit plans are medical plans with much lower and more restricted benefits than major medical insurance, but with lower premiums.
They're forgetting the fact that before you become NP you have to be an RN and also have at least a year of experience working as RN depending on the school. Nursing school alone require you to do more than 1000 clinical rotation hours. After that some RN will work for years before going for their NP program. Which means NPs doing less clinical hours than PAs make a lot a sense because they've already been exposed for years. They have an idea about every little thing in healthcare.
Some schools vary their requirements slightly: the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing requires 540 hours from its Family Nurse Practitioner students, in addition to which there is a capstone project to complete the master's degree. Clinical Nurse Specialists in this program also put in 540 clinical hours.