Family Nurse Practitioner Melissa Rodden South University
NSG 5000 Role of Advanced Practice Nurse: Family Nurse Practitioner
April 18, 2015

Abstract
The issues of patient safety and the increasing scope of family nurse practitioners in medical practice have been dealt with in this paper. National Patient Safety Guidelines are an important tool to help standardize the patient safety procedures. The role of the family nurse practitioner in helping patients is unquestionable and they are the cornerstones of modern medical practice.

Introduction
Today’s family nurse comes with in depth knowledge of medicine and is board certified. The responsibilities that have to be fulfilled by such a practitioner embrace health as a way of living and they focus on both treatment and prevention. In recent times, with transitional care gaining widespread acceptance the family nurse practitioner is being granted more decision-making authority although in certain states they are still under a physician’s supervision. The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) were put forward by the joint commission for the first time in 2002. The aim of introducing these goals was to deal with patient safety issues and specify certain prerequisites for accreditation (Fairman et al., 2011).
Discussion
The 2015 NPSG’s provide great scope for a family nurse practitioner to improve patient care and also places the burden of patient safety on her shoulder along with other members of the medical team. In this section of the paper, an overview of all the NPSG’s will be put forward with specific emphasis on the family nurse practitioner’s role in implementing these goals.
Goal1: Improve the accuracy of patient identification.
It is extremely important to ensure that