Nurse Practitioner Model

As the united states population is growing and health care is expanding, the role of advanced practice nurses (APN) has become essential in the provision of affordable healthcare to the patient population. The Nurse Practitioner(NP) program offered at South university is build on the foundations of nursing practice with its primary criteria focused on achieving a graduate education, certification and practice focused on patients and families

APN is often considered an idea dating back more than a century which promotes consistency in practice, advances the achievement of value added patient’s outcomes and improvement in the health care delivery process based on evidence based guidelines. Nursing theory, research, service and practice are …show more content…
Kutzleb (2015) explained in his study that the NP care model was introduced in health care to manage, monitor and coordinate the out comes of patients with high risk chronic diseases. The healthy heart initiative spear headed by NP’s focused on patients with heart failure who were discharged and identified to be at risk for early readmission. The NP role according to Kutzleb (2015) involved addressing causes for re-hospitalization and how to reduce cost. Over all, patients reported satisfaction with care received and …show more content…
This panel comprised of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, clinical engineers, risk managers and other professionals who have firsthand experience in addressing patient patient safety matters in a variety of health care settings. The panel, together with the joint commission personnel work together to identify ensuing patient safety issues and advices the joint commission on how to tackle those issues. The joint commission then seeks input from various health care professionals and partners to determine the highest priority of patient safety issues and how to address them. Through this system of checks and balances, the NPSG is able to promotes patient safety and prevent sentinel