Nurse Practitioner Overview

The Role of the Nurse Practitioner As A Care Provider, Educator, Consultant, Researcher, and Mental Health Care Provider

The future of the role of nurse practitioner is arriving sooner than might be expected (Burns, 1994, pp. 29-35). Among the more significant of the roles that will be filled by nurse practitioners in the near future and by some nurse practitioners and today are the following: (1) nurse practitioners will increase their role as promoters and educators of healthy lifestyle behaviors for their patients; (2) tertiary nurse practitioners and clinical nursing specialists will evolve to meet the specialized health care needs of complex pat

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tant in the 1990s, although the function of the nurse practitioner has expanded far beyond this concept. In the 1990s also, government has found that nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists can play a vital role in the delivery of health care services to the indigent (Harper, 1995, p. 42). As costs associated with the delivery of health care services soared in the 1980s and continue to increase in the 1990s, third party funders, health care providers, and users of health care services sought and continue to develop and implement procedures and programs that will either stabilize costs or reduce the rate of increase of such costs. Health care services funded by government received special scrutiny. Indigent people are almost entirely dependent upon cost-free or sliding-scale fee health care services delivery. Thus, cost containment measures that affect the delivery of governmentally funded health care services tend to have a devastating impact on the accessibility of health care services to the homeless and to all indigent persons in American society. Indigent persons tend to postpone medical consultation and treatment to avoid incurring costs they cannot afford (Booth, 1994, p. 57). As a consequence, when they do
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