It does apply to a nurse practitioner, so I will be withdrawing it. One of the reasons given yesterday for leaving nurse practioners in the list of individuals who have the ability to make these life-ending decisions for people, and to help them in that process.... It calls for life-ending decisions to be delegated to a nurse practitioner, yet we don't even allow nurse practitioners to ask for an X-ray or to issue a narcotic drug, but we're willing to give them the ability to assign death.
There's something intrinsically wrong with that. I don't want to minimize the value of nurse practitioners or the work they do, but if they can't even call for an X-ray, maybe calling for death is a little bit out of their scope.