For the nurse practitioner -- the agent of advanced nursing practice -- this means a more direct and personal responsibility to both the patient and the healthcare system.
It is thus that Buppert (2010) indicates that "when a nurse practitioner performs a physician service, it may be billed to Medicare under the nurse practitioner's name and provider number or, if "incident-to" or "shared billing" rules are followed, under the employer physician's name and number. A failure to follow the rules could lead to a charge of fraudulent billing." (p. 1)
This is a common mistake that can arise from a failure to adapt to new conditions and parameters in one's role as an advanced nursing professional. This denotes that in addition to one's newly gained knowledge and responsibility, one is now also expected to maintain a certain level of accountability which is not as pointedly maintained for the basic registered nurse.
Another area in which mistakes might commonly be made is the prescription of drugs. According to Buppert, the NP should take...
A failure to do this can lead to liability in the event that the medication yields problematic and unexplained side-effects.
Works Cited:
Buppert, L. (2010). Leading nurse practitioners through the reimbursement maze/legal haze. Buppert.com.
McGee, P. & Castledine, G. (2003). Advanced Nursing Practice. Wiley-Blackwell.
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Promoting Advanced Nurse Practitioner and common errors made by Instructions:
1-page on adressing ways to promote the ANP profession to the public. And include at least two web sites as reference MUST BE ABLE TO ACCESS REFERENCES WITH CONTROL CLICK
- 1 PAGE Noting the most common mistakes made by APNs and how they can be avoided.
with at least 1 reference this is a good site https://www.buppert.com
