Same-day physician access leads to fewer resident hospitalizations, ED visits
Surveyed facilities with same-day physician access had 21% lower hospitalization rates. Urgent access to nurse practitioners is also linked to fewer transfers.
Nurse Practitioners
CMS eases restrictions for physicians in long-term care facilities
In-person visit requirements have been lifted along with restrictions on delegating tasks to nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
Bulk of nursing home work for nurse practitioners remains nonclinical, finds study
The role of a nurse practitioner in these settings is a hybrid of nursing consultant and a fee‐for‐service clinician, say researchers.
‘Unprecedented’ growth of nurse-practitioners contributes to drop in RNs
The number of NPs doubled to about 190,000 between 2010 and 2017. There’s also been a shift in where they work.
Nurse practitioners improve transfer process, reduce errors, study finds
Specially trained nurse practitioners help nursing homes improve the resident transfer process and reduce errors, recently published research shows.
Empower NPs, reduce hospitalizations
Maximizing the authority of nurse practitioners is associated with reduced hospitalization of skilled nursing facility residents, according to findings recently published in Nursing Outlook.
Combatting UTIs with juice and good labs
Here’s the good news: A juice may reduce the incidences of urinary tract infections in nursing home residents by up to 50%. That has huge implications for a problem that plagues seniors, not to mention clinical staff.
AMDA to allow NPs, physician assistants as full members
The American Medical Director’s Association has a new name and will now allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants full membership.
60 seconds with … Leonard Gelman, M.D., CMD
Q: What motivated the recent decision to extend AMDA membership to nurse practitioners?
A: The last set of stats that I saw, about 25% of visits in nursing homes are done by nurse practitioners. This trend has been increasing over the last four to six years. We understand that in certain parts of the country, physicians might not be readily available. My take is it doesn’t really matter who does the work, as long as someone qualified is providing the services.
Nurse practitioners struggle to be taken seriously: study
Nurse practitioners are among professionals who are often misunderstood, according to a new management study.
