Describe three barriers that have slowed down the progress of advanced practice nursing and strategies to help overcome these barriers. (Saunders, 2014)
Submission Instructions:
- Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
Requirements: 500 words
Answer preview
Nurse practitioners have been facing many challenges as healthcare has been facing nurse shortages for many years, especially during the pandemic. Nurses have been leaving the field due to the fear of transmitting the disease to their loved ones leaving patients to be assisted through telehealth. Currently, nursing is in high demand since they are the front-line workers who spend most of their time caring for patients while still providing background information, assessment results, and recommendations (SBAR) to physicians (Noora, 2020). Secondly, there have been concerns regarding NPs’ ability to prescribe controlled substances and narcotics safely. Many NPs can take up physicians’ duties, but due to many rules governing the practice of NPs and APNPs, they are left with minimal tasks that slow down
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