and becoming sicker in the process, there has presented a shortage of physicians to manage this rise in demand. Now, with the passage of new legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, more patients have access to health care than ever before. Many experts have suggested increasing the utilization of Nurse Practitioners and Physicians assistants as a cost effective resource to tackle to rising cost of healthcare amid a physician shortage in America. Several studies have been performed to assess
such as a nurse practitioners are important primary health care providers for the US health care industry. With the shortage of physicians predicted by 2025 of a shortage of 90,000 (Lenny Bernstein, 2015), the need for mid level practitioners are essential. Nurse practitioners are capable of providing safe and effective patient care (Pauline, Chen., 2013). According to Pauline Chen, (2013), physicians believed they “ provided higher-quality care” (para 10) compared to nurse practitioners. To this
The Physician Assistant (PA) and Nurse Practitioner (NP) career fields were the medical fields’ response to the physician shortage that began in the 1960s, but the shortage still exists today. As the population continues to grow, the gap continues to grow as well. Medical schools were having a hard time producing as many doctors that were needed to fill in the gaps in a timely manner, leaving the medical field looking for ways they could have health care providers diagnose and treat patients,
role of primary care providers. Despite a vigorous increase in the supply of physicians following unprecedented increases in medical school capacity in recent years, the “Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) still projects a shortage of 130,000 physicians by 2025, split almost equally between primary and specialty care.” (Association of American Medical Colleges. The Impact of Health Care Reform on
Critical Analysis of “Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Community Health Centers under the Affordable Care Act” Jennifer Yeh AT Still University 24 July 2016 Critical Analysis of “Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Community Health Centers under the Affordable Care Act” The importance of the Affordable Care Act has had a dramatic affect on the health care system on both Americans and on providers. In a response to the increased demand for primary care
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role of a nurse practitioner has changed and progressed over the time since their inception. Nurse practitioners in today’s environments of hospitals and clinics in treating primary care has expanded. Their roles has expanded that in some states a nurse practitioner can work in a clinic stand-alone without an overseeing physician. Do all states offer these privileges to nurse practitioners some ask and the answer is no. Some states still have the requirement that nurse practitioners must be overseen
Prescriptive Privileges for Advanced Practice Nurses In order to meet the growing demand for primary care, nurse practitioners need prescriptive authority to provide quality, safe, and cost-effective healthcare to patients. The development of nurse practitioners, plus physician shortages in primary care, leads to an increasing need for nurse practitioners and access to health care. However, nurse practitioners currently face prescription regulations for controlled substances, which limits their
setting and structures involved are the Pennsylvania Board of Nursing, the Pennsylvania state government, insurance companies, and any healthcare organization that employ nurse practitioners. The ultimate decision maker is the state senate of Pennsylvania. As stated above, currently the bill has not been passed for nurse practitioners to practice independently in the state of PA for reasons as mentioned above. The bill is to be reintroduced in the near future, according to senator Pat Vance (8 on your
reveal the fact that physicians in the US are getting a wage two times higher than those in Europe. In addition, the nation is facing acute shortage of doctors, thus compounding the problem. Probably as a result of these situations, there has been a growth in the number of retail clinics in the nation with the current number being above 1,000. As Kaissi and Zucker (2010)