Licensure for physicians differs from that for nursing in which way?

A) Unlike nurses, physicians take an examination after each year of education.
B) Nurses are not required to take a clinical skills examination, but physicians are.
C) Physicians take a state law examination while nurses do not.
D) Nursing licensure examinations use a competency-based process while medicine does not.


B

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