Nurse practitioners independent prescribing?

I don't mean any offense to the nurse practitioners out there as there are some great ones, but have you looked at their curriculum? It's pales definitely in comparison to medical school, but also PA school. Their classes are all theory and they only have like two assessment classes and one pharmacology class. Yet they are getting the same rights to independently practice just like physicians without any supervision and essentially practice as a physician with a fraction of the training.... Nurse practitioners independent prescribing?
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