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Handing copy to your radio personalities and then saying a prayer that it 'turns out? acceptable to the advertiser is sadly a common occurrence in many stations.
Here are a few tips to help your write an effective radio commercial. The bottom-line fact still remains, the more talented the copywriter, the better quality of the commercial.
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The health care industry is composed of many professionals, each with their own titles and job specifications. One of them is a nurse practitioner - a registered nurse who gained higher a higher level of education such as a Master's or Doctorate Degree.
Nurse practitioners are deemed by many job analysts as the health care sector's answer to the ever-growing shortage of licensed physicians. NPs as nurse practitioners are commonly called are generally referred to as physician extenders because of some similarities of their works to the works of licensed physicians.