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…
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…
After graduating and beginning my first ever professional career, I am finally sitting back and evaluating what my future goals would be. Having tutored and being teachers’ assistant for different groups of college students for more than three years, a career in teaching posted less of a challenge for me to overcome. Because most of my students were refugees and non-native English speakers, I did have to innovate daily on how to communicate and endow my knowledge to students. That being said, my…
sister who aspired to be a regristered nurse, and then I decided that medicine was a path I wanted to go down as well. However, when I came to college I wasn’t doing great in my natural science classes so I got decided to to into the Aging Studies field where academically I did so much better. This took me off my track to go to medical school and become a doctor but I was determined to get back on track. Which leads me to why I wanted to interview a Nurse Practitioner (NP). I began to do…
funds the Haunted House event raises. From this experience I have learned to love everyone in my community despite their past or appearance. This is major because this is a skill that will help me pursue my future dream of becoming a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Working in the medical field judgement…
non-clinical nurse administrator and a clinical nurse practitioner are both advanced positions within the field of nursing; however, they vary and require different core competencies for each individual professional role. As with any professional position, required education and several competencies are needed to successfully fill the role. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the core competencies of a non-clinical nurse administrator and a clinical nurse practitioner.…
Becoming a nurse Basic training can begin at Valencia doing dual enrollment. It lets you actually do hands on things. One program of specialization in nursing is a Radiology Nurse Practitioner. What Radiology Nurse Practitioners do is assure compassionate nursing care for woman, and families in the Breast Imaging. They will also assure the right preparation of the patients, work on scheduling the patients, and perform procedure assessments. In order to become a Radiology Nurse Practitioner there…
being a nurse in patient care management is really appreciated. The society is increased, and the role of a nurse becomes ponderous. As many researchers have noted, there is a physician shortage, and the need for the nurse practitioner is a must. The role that the NPs have played in the disease management of the patient around the world is based on their scope of practice, the training they have received from the school. The essential elements of a nurse training either it is a registered nurse…
medicine. As an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP), my goal is to continue to care for this patient population that I am familiar with and have grown to understand. The uniqueness of the Neurocritical patient population requires extensive care that an AGACNP can fully provide. The AGACNP role is built upon a strong foundation of nursing adding the expertise of advanced skills. The AGACNP career roots lie in that of a registered nurse with a continued education at the…
Information Since the establishment of nurse practitioner role as a healthcare provider in 1965, it was created to provide healthcare services to populations affected by physicians’ shortage (Kippenbrock, Lo, Odell, & Buron, 2015). Also importantly, it was created to provide care to the population in the rural areas (Kippenbrock, Lo, Odell, & Buron, 2015). At the inception of the nurse practitioner role over five decades ago, the rate of nurse practitioners have raised from 14,000 per year to…