A 3 page research paper that discusses how NPs improve patient service and how they can best use their power to continue to improve these services in the future. The writer stresses working collaboratively in integrated practice with physicians. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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body or state board of nursing as qualified to work beyond the usual parameters of nursing (Hooker and Berlin, 2002). Eighty-five percent of NPs work in primary care, which includes
general internal medicine, family medicine, general pediatrics, geriatrics and womens health, while the remainder work in various specialties, such as surgery, neonatalogy, oncology, psychiatry, etc. (Hooker and Berlin, 2002). The
work of NPs in the last several decades conclusively show that their services improve health care services. First of all, the existence of NPs means that, in many rural areas,
patients can receive quality primary care where otherwise a shortage of physicians would make such care delivery impossible. Also, the various nurse practitioner specialties have proven to be valuable
additions to their various areas of expertise. For example, since their inception, neo-natal nurse practitioners (NNPs) have been actively progressing the field of neonatalogy and their contribution have resulted in
dramatic improvement in neonatal outcomes, both in mortality and morbidity (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003). NNPs have been instrumental in defining the role of role of advanced practice nurses in critical
care due to the fact that they were the first acute care NPs (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003). Functioning collaboratively with neonatologists, as active participants within multidisciplinary teams, NNPs have "clearly
and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). The same can be said of other NP specialties. As
this suggests, NPs have evolved into a "large and flexible" workforce (Phillips, et al, 2002, p. 133). However, far too frequently, NPs and physician professional organizations do not work collaboratively,
but rather expend a significant amount of energy jousting with each other in policy areas (Phillips, et al, 2002). Turf battles, such as prescriptive privileges, interfere with the goal