Nurse Practitioners Provide Solutions to the Healthcare Crisis

Posted by Western PA Hospital News on Nov 15, 2011 in Nurses | 0 comments

National Nurse Practitioner Week celebrated Nov 13-19

As the healthcare provider shortage crisis looms, nurse practitioners offer the high-quality, cost-effective, patient-centered services needed to help solve the increasing demand for healthcare in the United States.

Nurse practitioners are licensed, expert clinicians with advanced training who provide primary, acute and specialty healthcare services. They work as a partner with their patients, helping them make educated healthcare decisions and healthy lifestyle choices.

Penny Kaye Jensen, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, FAANP is president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

“Nurse practitioners have a proven track record of success, and research has shown that they provide high-quality primary care with outcomes that are similar to, or even better than, primary care physicians,” Dr. Jensen said.

National Nurse Practitioner Week, November 13 – 19, 2011, is a time to celebrate these unique healthcare providers and to remind lawmakers of the importance of allowing nurse practitioners to practice to the full extent of their experience and education.

J.C. Blair utilizes nurse practitioners that work in a variety of clinical settings. J.C. Blair’s nurse practitioners include Gina Lechene, CRNP, in the J.C. Blair Primary Care Center and the Hospitalist program; Sharon Stiver, CRNP, with J.C. Blair Company Care’s Occupational Health Program and J.C. Blair Cardiac Care Center; and Shawn Bookhamer, CRNP; Deb Messner, CRNP; Vickie Lathero, CRNP; and Linda Dubois, CRNP, with the J.C. Blair Hospitalist program.

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