Medscape January 7, 2022
A new study published by Health Affairs shows that Medicare support of clinical training for nurse practitioners would increase the pipeline to address the national shortage of primary care clinicians.
The study, by researchers at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and the University of Pennsylvania’s nursing school, hospital, and health economics center, shows that universities participating in the $200 million Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration significantly increased the number of primary care NPs they enrolled and graduated.
The ability to increase the supply of nurse practitioners is limited by a shortage of clinical preceptors, according to the study. The GNE Demonstration, launched under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, provided selected hospitals with Medicare funding...