Challenges Facing Nurse Practitioners Over the last decade, the changing demands in health care have resulted in a significant demand for Nurse Practitioners. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. The NP has completed a nurse practitioner program in primary health care and has advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and health care management. The nurse practitioner provides wide-ranging and constant care
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focusing it’s emphasis on cost maintenance, access, and quality of care (Poghosyan, Lucero, Rauch, Berkowitz, 2010). This transformation will now necessitate a restructure of the many roles within the health care professionals, including registered nurses (RNs). In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year planned response to the critical need to assess and transform the nursing profession (Institute of Medicine, 2010). According to
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so will patient numbers. Increased insureds will increase demands for nursing care as this legislation is fully enacted. The ways in which nurses can provide solutions for enacting the legislation and caring for the millions of newly insured Americans are discussed. The act also provides for professional training and development of advanced practice nurses to meet the demands of increased care and increased patient load. Keywords: healthcare reform, nursing education, nursing roles
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by the government for public hospitals benefits the system where patients are provided with sufficient sickbeds, nurses, emergency wards, ambulance vehicles and food. These subsidies allow hospitals to prevent over flowing of patients left unattended during emergency and casual consultation times. In most general hospitals, subsidised funds allow hospital authorities to hire more nurses which increase the efficiency of patients being tended and decrease the workload on the doctors (Palmer and Short
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judgment(Bulman,2004).It also helps us have control of our thought process ,our emotions and responses to our sorroundings.Reflection therefore furnishes us with tools that enable us to achieve what we want in life. Learning in the health field is usually a challenge as there is usually a big gap between the ‘Know how and the do how’. Students usually find it very difficult to relate what they learn in class to what really happens in the real world (Callara, 2008). As such, there is an increasing need for reflection
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Solution Desmond Mueller California State University, Fullerton School of Nursing Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice BSN 306, Section 05 Anne Johnston-Silverberg, MS, FNPc September 14, 2012 The Affordable Care Act: The Role of the Nurse Practitioner The recent implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a significant impact on the American health care delivery systems. The passage of this bill mandates that all Americans must have health care coverage and that insurance companies
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Factors Influencing Emergency Use of Nurse Practitioners: A Critique Problem and Purpose This is critique of a Qualitative Nursing article, the article is: Factors Influencing the Decision to Use Nurse Practitioners in the Emergency Department by Laurie A. McGee, MN, ARNP and Louise Kaplan, PhD, ARNP, published in Journal of Emergency Nursing, Volume 33, Number 5, October 2007. The problem that is stated in the article is there is a growing and serious problem facing the overcrowding of emergency rooms
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and development are emerging in the health and social care. A nurse basic professional responsibility is to provide care and support to people who need helps to improve their health issues. Its professional responsibility is to provide nursing care and support to the people who have been suffering from deterioration of health. A traditional way of nursing is to just provide primary care and follow the order of the professional practitioner, but now new concept of therapeutic relationship and implementation
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End-of-life care is often associated with a myriad of legal/ethical requirements that medical practitioners have to comply with, failure to which there very grave consequences both to individuals and health care institutions. Advance directives comprises of one’s wish about his or her health care decision in case he or she is incapacitated to an extent that they cannot make their own health decisions. The common functions associated with advanced directives include consent and capacity, artificial
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beginning to grieve may withdraw. Doctors may become discouraged because they can't cure their patient and feel helpless. Some seem to avoid a dying patient. This can add to a dying person's sense of isolation. If this appears to be happening, the nurse should discuss their concerns with the family, friends, or the doctor. People nearing the end of life may have spiritual needs as compelling as their physical and emotional concerns. Spiritual needs involve finding meaning in one's life and ending
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