Nurse practitioners, physicians disagree on primary care roles
Survey reveals discrepancies regarding beliefs about medical home leadership, admitting privileges and payment for clinical services.
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Proud to be a ‘nurse first’ during National Nurses Week
A Certified Nurse Midwife recounts how skills learned while working as a clinical nurse serve as the foundation for a successful advanced-practice career.
Ending health insurance dictatorships key to successful health reform
Insurance companies are more often a hindrance than a help when it comes to providing quality healthcare.
NAPNAP 2013: Nurse practitioner research often poorly visible
Implementing several techniques can help improve public recognition of NP research and improve the adoption of evidence-based medicine in practice.
How do you handle rude patients?
Difficult interactions with patients can damage or preclude a therapeutic relationship between provider and patient.
Reclaiming autonomy from medical insurers
Complex precertification and authorization criteria, high patient copays and low clinician reimbursement rates are a plague on the U.S. healthcare system.
Support players important in delivering patient-centered primary care
Primary care health teams should look to practice facilitators and care managers to deliver quality improvements and patient-centered care.
Incorporating integrative health coaching in primary care
What would healthcare be like if patients were involved in directing their own care?
Improved staffing cuts Medicare patient readmissions
Nurses’ work environment and staffing levels affect readmission rates for heart failure, MI and pneumonia.
Explaining gender pay disparities in NP and PA professions
Entrenched attitudes may play a role in gender pay inequities among nurse practitioners and physician assistants, but so do salary negotiation skills, experts say.
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