Case Study: Family Nurse Practitioner

I anticipate working in the same organization, as a family nurse practitioner (FNP), that I am working currently. I am a case manager nurse, and as a nurse practitioner I think to put in practice my knowledge at Simply Healthcare Plans (HMO health plan) located in Miami-Florida. Simply health care plans provide an adequate and easy to get to variety of preventive, primary care, and specialty service area to meet health needs of all Medicaid/Medicare members, and also preserve an enough number, mix and geographic dispersal of providers. Members that suffer from heart failure are heavy clients of the health care system and consequently needs to close medical supervision and reinforcement to be able to and recognize their warning sign. Family Nurse Practitioner is in a best position to do this, like FNP has the skill to attention on the medical necessities of the member and also the learning and caring needs of the member and their family (Dahl & Penque 2000). In order to avoid the high incidence and cost of each one member’s hospitalization it is important that inpatient and outpatient care is excellently coordinated.
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The member will be evaluate after hospital discharged by the family nurse practitioner who recommended medicines to keep under control the blood pressure, instructed to the patient the meaning of treatment adherence, the most significant side effects of the drugs as well as s/s of alarm that needs to reach for medical care; since the discharge plan start on admission, the FNP check in the social worker and case manager to search for smoking cessation community program if the patient