Family Nurse Practitioner

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) are registered nurses who work with a physician as either a specialty care providers or a primary care provider. They work side by side with other healthcare providers and their main focus is to provide an atmosphere of family oriented care. The family nurse practitioner’s (FNP) can assess, diagnose, perform different exams, and also prescribe medications to patient of all ages from infant to the elderly. The FNPs also play an important role in educating and counselling patient (para 1). American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) (2013), explains that FNP’s scope of practice is determined by the American Nurses Association based on the populations’ need and service needed” (para. 1).
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It does not matter in which clinical setting you are, the emphasis in on direct patient care. The model adopted is patient-centered relationship focus on health prevention, wellness and patient education. The nurse practitioner role has been extended as a fundamental part of the health care
According to JNP (2012) the increase need for primary care services for an older population will stress an already overload network of primary care providers in many areas of the country. Family nurse practitioners are nurses educated at the master’s or doctoral level to provide health care to patients across the life span in both primary and acute care and in a wide variety of institutional and community health care settings (p.171). Several researches have shown the role of using NPs in clinical settings, few of them addressed the role of NPs in PM&R or diseases with substantial rehabilitation components. Romero (1999) described the role of NPs in diagnostic, prevention, and treatment of lymphedema, and provided details of treatment and management for this condition. Early studies show that NPs in rehabilitation setting found no statistically significant difference in quality of care or cost effectiveness of care of an NP under the supervision of an internist versus that of an internist alone (Weinberg, Liljestrand, &