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.
Minnesota: NPs must have 3600 hours of experience. Nevada: NPs must have 2 years or 2000 hours of clinical practice; New York State: Effective Jan 2015, NPs will have to have 3600 hours of collaborative experience. Rules are still being written. Vermont: NPs are required to have 2400 hours and 2 years of a practice agreement.