Overall, however, any Emergency NP is capable of handling extremely stressful situations and of ensuring that he or she is ready for the next difficult condition that appears.
Southern Universities Offering Nursing Education

There are many universities all over the country that offer nursing education. In the south, many of these universities are concentrated in Alabama and Florida. Auburn University in Alabama has a school of nursing that was founded in 1979 (Auburn). The school's nursing program is designed for the adult or family nurse practitioner, and does not offer other specialties. However, it does offer courses such as Healthcare Policy and Ethics, along with Advanced Theoretical Formulations. The NP designation requires 43 credit hours and 840 clinical hours over a total of six semesters Auburn, 2012). That makes the degree relatively comprehensive, and compares favorably with other programs in the south (Auburn, 2012). The University of Alabama also offers a….

Nursing
Nurse Practitioner ole: Current and Future Trends

If one is looking for a bare-bones description of today's nurse practitioner, a description presented in quite simple terms, it is convenient to turn to The International Council of Nurses; this organization defines the "nurse practitioner / advanced practice nurse" as an N who has acquired an "expert knowledge base," who has a Master's degree, and whose expanded practice role is shaped "by the context and/or country in which he/she is credentialed to practice."

Meanwhile, Cheryl Stegbauer, a faculty member and nurse practitioner (NP) at the University of Tennessee for the past thirty years, delves a bit deeper into the NP's role in shaping contemporary healthcare: "Most of the medical profession and patients" may understandably "scratch their heads about how the NP role is defined" (Nelson, 2004), Stegbauer offers. "Because the NP approach is holistic, patients like the increased attention [afforded by NPs] and doctors….

The WHNP is important because they can take the time to educate patients on health matters and establish a rapport that makes the patient feel comfortable and at ease.
II. TAINING and CETIFICATION

Women's Health Nurse Practitioners can work in various settings from private practice, hospitals, universities, clinics and other various medical settings. To become a WHNP, the person must first complete the requirements to become a registered nurse (N). This can be done by obtaining a four-year bachelor's degree in nursing. After the student completes the four-year nursing degree and passes state licensing, studies can begin to become a Nurse Practitioner by obtaining a master's degree or a post master's degree certificate. This is considered advanced level training and the student enters a program that specializes in the field she wishes to practice in, such as women's health. The requirement for a master's degree hasn't always been in place. There….

While nurses might not make as much money or have as much time as they would like, there are many aspects of their job that are extremely rewarding to them. When I interviewed this Nurse Practitioner, she told me about a young patient in the oncology ward whose bravery had made her smile, an elderly woman who kept vigil at her husband's bedside as he lay dying, and many other families that have both helped her and been helped by her. This showed me that, while nurses might not be rich financially, and they might be overworked quite often, they are wealthy in many emotional ways that make their professional extremely worthwhile. It is valuable to them, and valuable to others, as well.
The downside to working as a nurse, though, is the nursing shortage that is taking place today, and has been going on for some time. While nurse….

Nurse Practitioner Models of Care -- Dorothea Orem
The objective of this work in writing is to choose a model of nursing care. The model chosen is that of Dorothea Orem. Orem's 'Self-Care Deficit Theory' is a general theory of nursing and one of the most utilized models in nursing in contemporary times.

Dorothea Orem - Background

Dorothea Orem was born in 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland. Orem earned her nursing diploma in the earlier part of the 1930s from Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Washington, D.C. As well as receiving three honorary doctorates and an Alumni Achievement Award for Nursing Theory in 1980 from Catholic University of America. (Bridge, Cabell, and Herring, paraphrased) Orem gained experience early in her nursing career in various hospital clinical settings as a staff nurse.

The work of Bridge, Cabell, and Herring (nd) states that Orem recalls from early in her career while serving as director of nursing service….

Nursing: Nurse Practitioner
The advanced practice nurse is a graduate with a master's or doctorate degree in nursing, certified to guide others in using the nursing process to maximize the community's health outcomes (Smith & ose, 2011). These nurses are prepared to pursue either direct practice roles, where they interact directly with families and patients to improve their well-being through disease management, or indirect practice roles, where they take a leadership role in the provision of care, but do not engage directly with patients (National CNS Competency Taskforce, 2008). Examples of indirect care activities include developing staff development activities, protocols of care and evidence-based guidelines. Specific direct care roles include nurse clinicians (practitioner) and nurse educators, whereas indirect roles include nurse administrator, nurse informatics, and nurse researchers (AACN, 2015). This text compares and contrasts the core competencies that govern the different roles, and identifies the differences/similarities in the implementation of competencies….

115). It seems many nurses or N who prepare for the role of nurse practitioner are not fully informed of the demands that may be placed on them in their new role. This in turn may lead to job dissatisfaction later down the line and ultimately limit ones ability to succeed in their chosen field. Presently there is not enough research provided to provide conclusive evidence one way or another as to the extent to which problems or gaps in teaching may influence one's decision to move from one career to the next.
More information could be collected in the form of self-report surveys as mentioned previous that would assess whether nurses felt they were prepared educationally to take on the challenges of the role they currently held or aspired to (Evans, n.d.; Dumas, Villeneuve, & Chevrier, 2000). There are others however, that believe that in some cases the N aspiring….

Nurse Practitioners: Better Care Savings
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Nurse Practitioners: Potential Better Care Savings

Nurse Practitioners: Potential Better Care Savings

With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and its stated agenda for controlling the cost of healthcare in America, many are advocating for expansion of the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce and its scope of practice (Poghosyan, Lucero, auch, and Berkowitz, 2012). The concerns about current and projected healthcare costs are warranted. In 2009, the U.S. allocated just over 17% of its gross domestic product to health care spending, which is at least 5% above that spent by other Western nations (Squires, 2012). Half of this was spent through Medicare and Medicaid, which provides coverage for retirees, the disabled, and those living in poverty. This is important because the latter two patient populations are those traditionally served by NPs (Poghosyan, Lucero, auch, and Berkowitz, 2012).

While many NP workforce….

Nurse practitioners play a crucial role in the modern healthcare system given their responsibilities in administering patient care. One of the critical components in the delivery of healthcare services in the modern healthcare setting is collaboration between different stakeholders. Modern healthcare environments and settings are characterized by the establishment of a multidisciplinary team that provides patient care. Consequently, nurse practitioners are required to collaborate with others, particularly physicians in their respective roles in the care delivery process. Stewart & DeNisco (2019) states that collaboration among healthcare providers or clinicians is based on shared goals and decision making, mutual relationships, and use of collective knowledge of all stakeholders involved in the care process. Collaboration with physicians has tremendous impacts on the practice and job satisfaction for nurse practitioners. The collaboration changes the practice of nurse practitioners by shifting their focus to patient-care, holistic care. When collaborating with physicians, nurse practitioners help streamline….

Nurse Practitioner Portfolio: A Review of Aspects Related to Nurse Practitioner (NP) Scope of Practice (SOP) Negotiation Strategy
Numerous researches deal with patient outcomes or care quality offered by nurse practitioners, with current literature indicating that nurse practitioners’ care quality standards are nearly on an equal footing with that offered by doctors. A primary care NP meta-analysis revealed that researches which controlled for patient risks non-randomly found pathological ailment resolution and patient satisfaction to be greater in case of patients cared for by NPs; further, NPs were just as good as doctors in most variables within controlled researches (Bakken & McArthur, 2001).
Nursing professionals supplementing physicians offer services complementary to or going beyond services offered by physicians. The objective is improving care quality and extending the array of services offered to patients. On the other hand, nursing professionals substituting doctors offer services that would have otherwise been offered by physicians alone. In this context,….

Health Care System Today
government has the highest expenditures on health care than any other country in the world yet Americans are yet to obtain better results. Given increased health care costs that account for 17% of the country's GDP with minimal results, health care reform has attracted considerable attention throughout the years. One of the recent initiatives adopted towards health care reform is the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010 by President Obama. As the provisions of this act continue to be enforced until 2020, significant gains have been realized with regards to reforming health care. Some of these gains include reduction of the uninsured population, Medicaid expansion, and increased affordability and accessibility of care services.

In light of the reforms brought by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the role of nurse practitioner has relatively changed. The changes in the role of….

History of Nurse Practitioner in Canada Advanced practice nursing is one of the fundamental components of the Canadian health sector and has continued to experience tremendous growth in recent years (Kaasalainen et al., 2010). Nurse practitioners are among the major professionals in the Canadian advanced practice nursing. Nurses have traditionally been practicing in expand roles in remote and rural areas across Canada, particularly informally. The role of the nurse practitioner was first introduced in the country in the 1960s – 1970s. This introduction was attributable to various factors including the perceived physician shortage, the launch of universal publicly funded medical insurance, increased medical specialization, and increased focus on primary healthcare. Nurse practitioner is one of the advanced practice nursing roles that emerged in Canada in the 1960s and 70s due to the belief that nurses were suitably positioned to meeting the nation’s emerging healthcare needs.
In the initial years of its introduction,….

Hiring a Nurse Practitioner reduces wait times (overcrowding) in the Emergency Department
estimation of the ED (Emergency department) compromise with care afforded to patients because of overcrowding from the perspective of the provider of services.

/I researched literature and bonafide / authenticated texts that chose to: Study causation, impacts and resolution tactics aimed at ED crowding; Collected and analyzed data using established methods; specifically target the ED scenario and the day-to-day crowding at the ED in care centers and hospitals. There is in each case a lot of reporting done on the circumstances ( like shortages of beds and staff) and that have led to the crowding that can be seen to increase with each passing day at ED centers, the overall impact that has had on the quality of care given to the patients as a result, and the solutions that have either been worked out or are being discussed (….

registered nurse (N) possessing advanced level education (a master's degree or doctoral degree), and corresponding skills, scope of nursing practice, and knowledge that reflects their educational qualification(s) is termed as an Advanced Practice egistered Nurse (APN). On the other hand, Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are APNs who deliver quality patient care services (UAPN, n.d).
Although physician assistants (PAs) possess the requisite skills to perform specific duties by themselves, they carry out these duties under their supervising doctor's authority. In contrast, nurse practitioners (NPs) may have greater autonomy. This means that they can independently perform some assistance and healthcare-related tasks, without a physician's supervision, contingent on state laws, their educational level, and additional qualifications and certifications acquired by them. Because it is compulsory for PAs to work together with a qualified physician, their working hours are very closely linked with their supervising physician's work hours. NPs, in contrast, may have greater autonomy….

Filling the Gap Wisely
urse Practitioner Workforce

There is no question that healthcare costs have been weighing heavy on policy makers, especially with an aging 'baby-boom' generation and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. Total national spending on healthcare was estimated to have exceeded $2.8 trillion in 2012, which represented 17.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP) (Turner and Hughes-Cromwick, 2013). Given its current trajectory, healthcare spending could reach $4.8 trillion by 2021 and consume nearly 20% of GDP (CMS, n.d.).

However, not everyone considers healthcare spending to be out of control. Rather than rely solely on percent GDP, Turner and Hughes-Cromwick (2013) looked at spending as percent potential GDP (PGDP). PDGP is considered a better long-term reference for economic trends because it minimizes fluctuations caused by short-term changes in inflation. Based on this comparison, U.S. healthcare spending is currently around 17.0% of PGDP, but more importantly,….