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The Nurse Practicioner Advantage ABSTRACT Canadians have seen a constant deterioration in the existing health care system. Current wait times have exceeded accepted
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ABSTRACT
Canadians have seen a constant deterioration in the existing health care system. Current wait times have exceeded accepted limits and medical manpower has significantly decreased. In reaction to these growing problems Canada's health care officials have began implementing a relatively new role for nurses into the health care system. The nurse practitioner has a master's degree in nursing and additional education in medical care. By employing the nurse practitioner in many areas of health care there has been an increase in access to existing recourses, decreased wait times, improved health outcomes by early diagnosis and overall health education.
THE NURSE PRACTITIONER ADVANTAGE
Did you know that over 3.5 million Canadians are with out a family a doctor, or that average wait times to see a doctor range from 1-4 days to even 3-4 months? ("Change management," 2005, p.20). With our population increasing daily and a huge generation of that population growing older, our health care needs are greatly increasing. To further this problem less and less doctors are choosing primary health care as their specialty. This shortage of medical manpower has caused great reductions to the accessibility of our existing health care, wait times have significantly increased, and extra time spent educating people about their health regimen has become nearly impossible. However, Canada has been taking the necessary steps to mend the deteriorating health care system. A relatively new field of nursing that has been employed in other countries for more than a decade is now being implemented into Canada's undersupplied health care system. The new super' nurse, or, more formally, Nurse Practitioner, has been looked to, to fill this ever growing void. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse with "further education in health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of illnesses and injuries" ("Integrating nurse...
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