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Nurse Practitioners: Quality Care Insights

Nurse practitioners provide effective services to children and adults by following laws and policies regarding their scope of practice, providing quality care, and offering more than just physical care. They must understand state laws that regulate what services they can provide independently or require physician supervision. Nurse practitioners are known for high-quality care as demonstrated by thoroughly checking lab results and spending more time with patients. They also address patients' emotional, social, and mental health needs in addition to physical needs in order to form trusting relationships and improve health outcomes.

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Lee High School

How do Nurse Practitioners provide effective services to children and adults?

Nurse Practitioner

Cristal Fernandez

Senior Capstone

J. Snyder

April 13, 2017

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Cristal Fernandez

J. Snyder

Senior Capstone

April 13, 2017

Nurse Practitioner

Currently, there are 174,606 advanced practice nurses in the United States. Nurse

practitioners job growth increased about 34% and is still increasing around the world since 2012.

(Barnett). Nurse Practitioners are advanced registered nurses; they have more advanced

knowledge and have to take an advanced clinical practice study course to be where they are at.

Nurse practitioners provide effective services to children and adults by enforcing laws and

policies, by giving quality care, and by offering more than just physical care.

Certain countries have state laws that still restrict nurses from doing training all on their

own. These laws are made to make sure nurse practitioners or any other nurses not get too ahead

of themselves and risk the life of a patient or risk losing their job. State laws vary widely in the

level of physician oversight required for nurse practitioners, with some states allowing nurse

practitioners to practice independently, while others limit nurse practitioner's authority to

diagnose, treat and prescribe medications to patients without supervision (Yee). Arkansas,

Indiana, and Michigan are one of the few states that dont restrict what services nurse

practitioners can do. In those states, they are allowed to diagnose patients on their own, but

sometimes they will need the supervision. This doesnt mean nurse practitioners can do whatever

they please, but they have more rights than others. Georgia is known as one of the states that

restrict what nurses can do; they need to be supervised at all times and cant diagnose patients on
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their own. The nurse practitioner role has developed and expanded (Barnett) Since the role of

nurse practitioners began in 1965. It has expanded and developed in many other countries as

well. Not only did it improve technology wise, but it also improved their services with patients.

As the next few years pass, all equipment nurse practitioners will improve, expand, and develop

into other places and hopefully, this field will have more job openings.

Quality care is an important factor to becoming a nurse practitioner because being in

charge of a patients life means to do all check ups the correct way and if having the time, do

everything twice to make sure everything is correct. Nurse practitioners ordered slightly more

lab tests than physicians did (Iowa Nurse Reporter). Nurse practitioners are more cautious than

physicians, and that shows quality care and the importance of the patient. Some nurse

practitioners even do lab tests more than once or twice to make sure everything is correct.

Nurse practitioners have demonstrated for decades that they can provide quality, cost-effective

primary care (Barnett). As the years pass, records show that the quality care nurse practitioners

shown has improved, and they are known to give good quality care. The quality care nurse

practitioners give constantly improve and will continue to do so for the good of the patients.

Nurse practitioners are trained to show more than just physical care because it will show

the patient that they can trust their nurse. They are trained to talk to and be able to give advice to

their patients, their family, and to be there for them as well as to be patient. Nurse practitioners

serve as primary, acute and specialty care providers across the country (PR Newswire). Primary

care is the most basic care, and its just for getting a simple treatment for a small incident. Acute

care is more severe than primary care because it is for getting short term treatment for an illness

or an emergency medical condition. Specialty care is medical practice, and this is where they
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decide what specialty they decided to study for. There are several different types of nurse

practitioners, some are for mental care, emotional care, physical care or some are even for

counseling. All nurses are trained to be careful about what they say to their patients or how to

break down the news to them. They are supposed to be seen as friends by their patients. Nurse

practitioners spent more time with patients, addressed health promotion more frequently, and

made more referrals than physicians. Their patients also had fewer hospitalizations. (Iowa

Nurse Reporter). Showing more than just physical care and rechecking their health will help the

patients out and reduce the times they need to return to the hospital. The patients arent only

adults but also children and having a child as a patient is more difficult to deal with because kids

are frightened most of the time. In order to go into nursing, you need to have kindness and

compassion (Plummer). Its important as a nurse to spend a lot of time with the patient, get to

know them and be able to gain trust because itll make the patient feel safe, connected and in

good hands.

In order for a nurse practitioner to provide effective services to children and adults, they

are expected to know the laws, policies, and roles, the quality care, and show more than just

physical care. All three of these concepts are important because itll show what an excellent and

prepared nurse does. Knowing the limit of what a nurse can do is important because passing the

limit is putting a patient in danger and putting the job as a nurse at risk. Doing more than just one

of the same lab tests is important also because sometimes lab tests can read incorrectly or not

catch the right results. The most important concept is to show more than just physical care so the

patient can feel connected, safe and in good hands, and so they are not in the hospital having

negative thoughts.
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Works Cited