Gill, I like that you’re giving the physicians some slack here. It is true that the shortage of physicians in healthcare has impacted the focus of on how to go about patient care. The addition of nurse practitioner will provide an increase in physician and will help to alleviate this problem. In an article by Sangter-Gormley, Frisch, and Schreiber (2013), the author state that the nursing background of NPs allow for an increase in healthcare that is holistic. Nurses are taught to spend time with the patient enabling to get the full picture of all the factors that may be impacting an individual’s health. The article also talks about several studies where patient cared for by NPs has better outcomes involving their health and overall quality of like.
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This is partly due to the training that NPs receive and research showing that patient and family centered care allows for better patient outcomes. I also believe that as NPs become associated with better patient outcomes, other physicians will begin to adopt these same methods and techniques proven to produce better patient outcomes.
References
Sangster-Gormley, E., Frisch, N., & Schreiber, R. (2013). Articulating new outcomes of nurse practitioner practice. Journal Of The American Association Of Nurse Practitioners, 25(12), 653-658.
This is partly due to the training that NPs receive and research showing that patient and family centered care allows for better patient outcomes. I also believe that as NPs become associated with better patient outcomes, other physicians will begin to adopt these same methods and techniques proven to produce better patient outcomes.
References
Sangster-Gormley, E., Frisch, N., & Schreiber, R. (2013). Articulating new outcomes of nurse practitioner practice. Journal Of The American Association Of Nurse Practitioners, 25(12), 653-658.