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Nurse Practitioner Role in ER

The changes in the health care environment result from a combination of factors including increasing costs of health care, changing societal values, advances in treatment therapies, technological innovation, changing demographics, and many other factors. Although health care reform at the federal level has been slowed by partisan politics, the issues motivating this reform movement remain unsolved. Thus, while preciseness in relation to the eventual structure of the health care environment remains elusive, participants in the industry, nevertheless, must develop strategies that will enable them to continue as viable players.

Health care organizations are implementing new patient care delivery models in the hope that such changes will improve costs, care quality, and patient satisfaction (Schweikart, 1996). Together with the redefinition of the roles of many caregiver classifications, team organizational structures are being adapted to many institutional care functions.

Improving the quality of the care provided is widely suggested in the 1990s as the solution to many of the problems being faced by health care institutions (Phipps, 1992). While medical professionals have no quarrel with striving for high quality health care, many of these individuals do tend to reject initiatives that appear to be further manifestations of bureaucratic initiatives that likely will have no long-lasting positive impacts on the quality of health care services (Jeffer, 1991). Nevertheless, many theorists and observers both inside and outside the medical establishment suggest that a quality management program can lead to improved quality in health care (Banham, 1993).

The basic concepts of approaches to quality management are compatible with the philosophical beliefs long and widely held by health professionals (Jeffer, 1991). Thus, health care professionals are not being asked to adopt something that is alien to their disciplines when it is...

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