Growing Pains Issues in Expanding the Nurse's Role in Primary Care (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Growing Pains Issues in Expanding the Nurse's Role in Primary CareIn answer to the impelling need for more health care for more people, and with the assumed shortage of physicians (especially in the urban poor and rural areas). The increased use of non-physician health personnel has been strongly advocated. There are two approaches included in this advocacy, it includes those who suggest the increasing use of ancillary medical paramedical personnel to act as physician extenders and there are those who suggest expanding the role of the registered nurse to include more primary care. It is with the latter approach that this paper is addressed.Since it is less than a decade that the early work on expanding the nurse's role was reported by Resnik (1967) and Connolly et. Ale we are only now beginning to understand some of the ramifications of this effort and can report some empirical findings. Most people envisioned the following problem areas, defining a new role (clinical specialist or nurse new certification requirements, new legislation to revise the health practice acts, and new training programs, Few people. If any, could predict the effects of expanding the nurse's role on the nurse, the staff with whom she nurse works. And the organization. This is the focus of this paper.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.