Nurse Key

Childhood Immunizations There are a multitude of ethical questions that come up in daily practice, including: Whether or not to disclose to a patient that the nurse practitioner or someone…

Standards of Care for Nurse Practitioner Practice The traditional definition of standard of care has been, “such reasonable, ordinary care, skill, and diligence as used by practitioners in good standing…

Promoting the Profession to the Public According to studies of patient satisfaction, patients who have seen NPs like NPs. But not everyone has seen an NP. People who are healthy…

Lawmaking and Health Policy Health care is regulated for the public good, to ensure quality to a public that is powerless to assert quality control as individuals. That is the…

Practice Ownership: Legal and Business Considerations for the Nurse Practitioner Owner Some state law is more conducive to NP practice ownership than others because of collaboration requirements, or lack thereof,…

The Employed Nurse Practitioner The majority of NPs are employed by others, rather than self-employed. The advantages of employment are: A built-in collaborative agreement, in states where these are required…

Reimbursement for Nurse Practitioner Services Except for a minority of patients who pay their own medical bills, every encounter between an NP and a patient has a third-party participant—the payer….

Risk Management Risk management is what one does to avoid problems later. Compare risk management to preventive medicine; risk management is preventive law. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are at risk for…

Negligence and Malpractice Nurse practitioners (NPs) carrying out their daily routines have one thing that appears on their “to do” lists every single day: “Do no harm.” Nevertheless, when an…

Hospital Privileges It was a tradition in the medical field that a patient who needed to be admitted to a hospital was admitted through the patient’s primary physician, who visited…