Primary Care Shortage In Nursing

According to research studies over 58 million Americans live in geographic areas or will fit to groups of population that are reflected to primary care shortage. The following areas are known officially as primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). The area are states like Nebraska 1.4%, Mississippi 57.3%, but not only that to consider, almost half the states, it is estimated at least 20%. Our capital D.C has a shortage of 30%, this also shows that anywhere in the U.S are lacking physicians or there are shortage of physician as primary care provider. Primary care provider demands is projected to rise over the next five years, due largely to population growth brought by different phenomenon like migration and growing family, aging …show more content…
According to Petterson et al that United States will require 52,000 more primary care provider by 2025. I conducted a literature review on the primary care shortage and the possible solution to the problem. This is in accordance to an article written by Thomas S. Bodenheimer and Mark D. Smith, that primary care capacity can be greatly increased without many more clinicians: by empowering licensed personnel, including registered nurses and pharmacists, to provide more care; by creating standing orders for non-licensed health personnel, such as medical assistants, to function as panel managers and health coaches to address many preventive and chronic care needs; by increasing the potential for more patient self-care; and by harnessing technology to add …show more content…
This article also focus on three key policy lever: NP scope-of-practice regulation, distribution of the NP workforce, and equitably distributed NP workforce, to help meet the escalating need for primary care in an era of health- care reform. Other articles that support this problem are the following; Nurse Practitioners in Developing Countries: Some Ethical Consideration, that principles of health care is the principle of justice is equity . For many years in developing countries like the U.S nurse led the way in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, and the prescribing and dispensing of medications to poor rural communities. For this reason, nurses are the most appropriate health workers for the role of primary care provider. However, having the capability to be a primary care provider this is still unsafe to patients and put nurses at legal risk. Justice requires that patient should obtain access to safe health care and that nurses should receive appropriate education. Due to increasing demand of primary care , In 1965 Nurse Practitioner program was created by Loreta Ford and Henry Silver a nurse and physician, the program focused on health promotion, disease prevention, and the health of children and the families