Nursing is one of the most versatile occupations within the health care workforce. The Americans are growing older, living longer, and gaining health insurance coverage in increasing numbers, but the supply of physicians is not meeting the demand for services. Today, nurse practitioners (NPs), together with physicians and physician assistants, provide most of the primary care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will place many demands on health professionals and offer them many opportunities to create a system that is more patient centered. At our hospital we have an NP that works in the intensive care unit (ICU) and two NPs that work with the hospital doctors’ on the medical surgical floors. They used to work on the medical surgical
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The changes in health care and higher demand for services will drive the need for nurse practitioners in the future. There are so many benefits to having mid level providers deliver primary care. It gives more people access to high-quality, lower-cost health care also NPs are reimbursed at a lower rate under Medicare. There is an increase in patient satisfaction as nurse practitioners spend more time taking histories, giving physicals, and explaining things to their patients. I have had a patient say to me “that doctor really listened to my concerns not like the one I had yesterday who just saw me and left right away”. Then I explained to my patient she is not a doctor but a nurse practitioner. I personally think as having experience in assessment, critical thinking, listening and teaching the skills we have learned as a bedside nurse that really helps the NPs in their daily practice. The NPs want to provide quality health care to my patients’. NPs have an idea of what patients’ are going through because they have seen it when they were floor care
The changes in health care and higher demand for services will drive the need for nurse practitioners in the future. There are so many benefits to having mid level providers deliver primary care. It gives more people access to high-quality, lower-cost health care also NPs are reimbursed at a lower rate under Medicare. There is an increase in patient satisfaction as nurse practitioners spend more time taking histories, giving physicals, and explaining things to their patients. I have had a patient say to me “that doctor really listened to my concerns not like the one I had yesterday who just saw me and left right away”. Then I explained to my patient she is not a doctor but a nurse practitioner. I personally think as having experience in assessment, critical thinking, listening and teaching the skills we have learned as a bedside nurse that really helps the NPs in their daily practice. The NPs want to provide quality health care to my patients’. NPs have an idea of what patients’ are going through because they have seen it when they were floor care