Research Paper on:
Adoption of an Emergency Room Professional Practice Model

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The development of professional practice models is a rather recent innovation growing from a variety of needs and goals. One of these goals lies in achieving higher standards  of practice in nursing; another is gaining more improved patient outcomes. Another relates to the still-evolving nature of health care in general. The cost of health care delivery  has been problematic for years; cost-related crisis levels have arrived at largely the same time that technology advances rapidly to give even greater choices in determining plans of care. The  Professional Practice Model In earlier times, there was a clear line between the responsibilities of physicians and nurses. Nurses followed doctors orders,  attended to the comfort of patients and were allowed to do little else. Today, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants and even RNs have advanced in their roles to highly  effective blur that line between the two primary disciplines. One result in an environment such as that within the emergency room can be  confusion over who does what. As health care changes and patients increasingly take active roles in their own health care, they care less  about hierarchy than they do results and practical application rather than medical theory. Though the overt struggle is between advanced practice nurses and physicians, it is the patient ultimately  most affected. In todays health care system as it currently exists, nurses not only have "more time" for direct patient interaction than do MDs, they also generally have greater  motivation. Patients are appreciative, not in the least because they are better able to establish a rapport of trust with the advanced practice