MedCity News August 27, 2023
As nursing remains the most trusted profession and NPs have long been accepted as primary care providers, nurses and NPs are uniquely qualified to guide patients through care interactions and bring the consistency associated with primary care to new places.
With physician staffing shortages and a lack of appointment openings across traditional primary care settings, patients are faced with inaccessibility to care. As a result, patients are looking beyond the traditional primary care office and instead looking to non-traditional care sites. As Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, appropriately said in February 2023, “If you fast forward 10 years from now, people are not going to believe how primary care was administered.” Today, primary care is moving closer to the patient, bringing...