{"id":633,"date":"2010-11-20T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T01:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2010-11-20T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T01:03:26","slug":"nurses-could-be-part-of-the-cure-for-heath-care-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/nurses-could-be-part-of-the-cure-for-heath-care-woes.html","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Could Be Part Of The Cure For Heath Care Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

How often have you heard the role of nurses discussed in all the debate over health care reform?<\/p>\r\n

I’d venture to guess that you haven’t.\u00a0That’s why a New York Times column this week on what part\u00a0nurses\u00a0can play in addressing America’s health care crisis,\u00a0written by a doctor,\u00a0Pauline Chen,\u00a0was an enlightening read.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/18\/health\/views\/18chen.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general<\/a><\/p>\r\n

She writes about a report released last month, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” that has several sensible recommendations. One of the prime notions\u00a0was “a debunking of the notion\u00a0that physicians are the only ones who should lead (and be reimbursed) for any changes in the current health care system,” Chen wrote.<\/p>\r\n

As an example, Chen cites the Transitional Care Model program at the University of Pennsylvania. Nurses are matched with hospitalized high-risk elderly patients.\u00a0For a three-month period\u00a0after the patient is released from the hospital,\u00a0that nurse visits him or her at home, goes with them to their doctor’s offices, and works with their primary-care doctor and\u00a0family.<\/p>\r\n

That program so far cut hospital readmissions and costs by as high as $5,000 a patient.<\/p>\r\n

The report also recommmended that the whole issue of a nurse’s training be revisited,\u00a0with a\u00a0standard set for exactly what education constitutes a registered nurse. There is also the suggestion\u00a0that residency programs perhaps be part of the curriculum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Not surprisingly the report, done over a two-year period by a panel assembled by the\u00a0Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been skewered by the American Medical Association, according to Chen. The AMA\u00a0in\u00a0a statement said\u00a0that “with a shortage of both nurses and physicians,\u00a0increasing the responsibilityof nurses is not the answer to the physician shortage.”<\/p>\r\n

Neither is clinging to old ways of thinking.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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How often have you heard the role of nurses discussed in all the debate over health care reform? I’d venture to guess that you haven’t.\u00a0That’s why a New York Times column this week on what part\u00a0nurses\u00a0can play in addressing America’s health care crisis,\u00a0written by a doctor,\u00a0Pauline Chen,\u00a0was an enlightening read.\u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/18\/health\/views\/18chen.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general She writes about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[479,480],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nurses","tag-role-of-nurses-in-health-care"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t