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Psychological Empowerment and Structural Empowerment among Nurse Practitioners
Purpose: Empowering workplaces provide practitioners with access to information, support, resources, and opportunities to learn and grow. Empowerment is also a psychological process, which occurs when one has a sense of motivation in relation to the workplace environment. There is no previous research on the relationship of psychological empowerment and structural empowerment in nurse practitioner […]
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A Guide for Preceptors of Advance Practice Nursing Students Caring for Women and Infants
Women’s health care in the United States has been described as unsatisfactory and falling behind the Healthy People 2010 objectives. Inadequate health care due to a shortage of providers is especially problematic for women who are poor with lower socioeconomic status. Advanced practice nurses are well suited to address this need. In this article, preceptor […]
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Anticipating the Profession’s Future
This article considers the future of the physician assistant (PA) profession in light of trends in the US health care system. A bright job outlook is highlighted, and potential new professional roles are discussed. The author predicts opportunities for PAs in health care administration and entrepreneurship, syndromic surveillance and other public health efforts, and health […]
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An Analysis of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Utilization in Various Employment Settings
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Nurse Practitioners & Reimbursement
Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform (1991) embraces primary health care as the focus of a restructured health care system. As part of this reformed system, consumers would access the most cost-effective providers in community-based settings. Removal of financial and regulatory barriers that limit consumer access to providers, such as lack of direct reimbursement by […]
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Overcoming Barriers to the Employment and Utilization of the Nurse Practitioner
A national longitudinal cohort study of nurse practitioners and their employers conducted during 1973–1976 provided data on barriers to the development of the nurse practitioner role in primary care. Nearly 90 per cent of the 500 primary care nurse practitioners responding and 75 per cent of the 407 employers responding reported encountering one or more […]
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Comparison of Nurse Practitioner and Family Physician Relative Work Values
Purpose: With the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, American nurse practitioners were granted direct Medicare reimbursement for Part B services. Payment structures in fee‐for‐service and managed care systems are physician‐based, leading to difficulties in constructing payments for other health care professionals. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the feasibility […]
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