Home Health Care News February 4, 2020
From 2010 to 2017, the amount of nurse practitioners in the United States more than doubled from 91,000 to 190,000, a new study published in Health Affairs found. The study draws from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Although researchers didn’t analyze the nurse practitioner (NP) boom’s effect on home-based care directly, there are some key takeaways providers need to recognize. For starters, the larger pool of NPs to work with will likely bring new hiring opportunities for providers, perhaps shaking up their current workforce breakdown.
“In general, as there are more NPs available, they should be more able to serve in the [home care] setting as well,” David Auerbach, the Health Affairs study’s author, told Home Health Care News.
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