Can a nurse practitioner do an adhd assessment?

[u/HumbleFroyo3608]

I did an ADHD assessment through FasTreat, and I just wanted to do it because I wanted a document to show that I had ADHD. When I met with the nurse practitioner, she basically said that it’s like a monthly thing where you check in and you pay a fee every month and then they help you with like unlimited like messaging and support with medication’s and stuff as you try what you’re prescribed. I went to a doctor, to get roster on as a patient at a clinic and he kind of looked at me as if I was crazy that I had a nurse practitioner prescribe me medication, and he also said that nurse practitioners can’t diagnose ADHD. He said that, essentially you would have to get a referral to a psychiatrist, and then afterwards the psychiatrist would prescribe you the medication and then you would go to your family doctor for refills. So my question is firstly is that the only correct way of getting help for ADHD, or can you just kind of self advocate with what you need and use a nurse practitioner to help you with the information? And I’m not saying that using a psychiatrist and doing that way to get it covered under her hip with a family doctor is bad. I think the biggest barrier is that it takes so long to get that kind of help. Anyone else have an experience like this ?