NURSE PRACTITIONERS

Nurse Practitioners



Nurse Practitioners filling the gap to care elders

My own perception is that the most challenging and yet still rewarding for Nurse Practitioners (NP) is to open an independent practice office while filling the gap created as a result of diminishing or rather vanishing of the service by the nursing homes mainly the care physicians, as well as inadequate geriatric physicians.

Elders chose to remain at home and prefer to stay away from institutionalized care - nursing home, Singh, D. (2005). They are worried about their well being and the lack of quality at these facilities. According ...