Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) are nurses who have acquired a higher level of education after Nursing. FNP are trained to treat, prescribe, and to provide quality healthcare needs for patients. The role of a FNP varies according to their realm of practice and state requirements. The amount of service that they can provide depends on the freedom of practice the state gives the FNP. Each state has various boundaries set for NPs to practice their field of healthcare. Nurse Practitioners can use their…

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…

Nurse Practitioners Carly Clay HS101 Professor Stewart Abstract A Nurse Practitioner has a very serious job. Being a nurse practitioner is not a job for someone who is not willing to work hard and be ready for anything at any moments notice. There are many different specialties to being a nurse practitioner such as emergency care, pediatric. Nurse practitioners work long hours and can work anywhere, from a doctor’s office to a hospital. Introduction Becoming a nurse practitioner is a…

1893 a graduate nurse, Lillian Wald, founded the Henry Street Settlement (HSS). The purpose of HSS was to assess the needs of the poor population that lived in the overcrowded, and rat infested tenements. The HSS visiting nurse program visited thousands of patients and obtained standing orders for emergency medications, and treatments. In the 1930s developed the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) which was considered to be the first primary Nurse Practitioner (NP) role. The FNS nurses made diagnoses,…

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,…

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…

Nurse practitioners (NPs), or Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), play an essential role in the growing complexity of the healthcare system. Established in the early 1960s, nurse practitioners have served as skilled clinicians, meeting the healthcare needs of patients as the availability of primary care physicians continued to decrease. Much like a Primary Care Physician, Nurse Practitioners can serve as a primary health care providers or specialize in particular areas of health care like…

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…

Nurse Practitioner When somebody needs to go to the doctor now a days, they might not necessarily see one, it most likely would be a nurse practitioner. They do the same job as a physician more or less but are a little different in other words, they are less expensive & they are more hands on, so to speak, being more one on one with the patient & their needs or wants in dealing with illnesses, broken bones, diseases, common cold, or loss of loved ones. They go further than a normal physician would…

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 the Future Supply and Demand for Physicians, Updated Projections through 2025.” June 2010.) In this paper we will look at the potential role of nurse practitioners…