Health IT Analytics May 15, 2023
By Sara Heath

Expanding scope of practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) would increase the primary care workforce and ideally bolster primary care access, according to AANP’s president, April Kapu.

Healthcare is on the precipice of having 100 million people lack access to primary care, a problem that could have catastrophic downstream impacts. But according to April Kapu, the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), there’s some hope to fill in those workforce gaps.

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Nurse practitioners (NPs), in particular, stand ready to bolster the primary care workforce, said Kapu, an NP herself and a professor at Vanderbilt.

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