(KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION) - Tapping Nurse Practitioners To Meet Rising Demand For Primary Care. Over 58 million Americans reside in geographic areas or belong to population groups that are considered primary care shortage areas. This brief focuses on the untapped potential of one type of advanced-practice nurses – nurse practitioners – to increase access to primary care. In 2012, about 127,000 NPs were providing patient care in the U.S., roughly half of whom – around 60,400 – were practicing in primary care settings. Optimizing our existing primary care capacity by removing barriers to NPs’ full deployment is a step that states, public and private health insurance programs, and managed care plans are in a position to take in the immediate term. Fuller participation of NPs in primary care might help, in particular, to increase access in underserved rural and urban areas.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:21:00 +0000
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