Patient Engagement August 18, 2020
More than half of nurse practitioners said expanding scope of practice has been instrumental in fulfilling patient access to care demands.
Relaxed scope of practice restrictions and models enabling expanded telehealth use have been instrumental in helping nurse practitioners meet patient access to care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus put a lot of pressure on the healthcare industry, namely in ensuring every patient could access the care she needed. For those who got sick with the virus, it became a question of whether that patient would be able to receive timely treatment in the acute care setting.
And for the chronically ill,...