Please read the essay below on FNP role in primary care across lifspan and and answer the following questions.
Do you agree with your classmates discussion of role of the FNP in primary care of the patients across the lifespan?
Do you agree with their discussion of the role of the FNP and the application of the Population-focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies- Family/Across the Lifespan. Why, why not, other thoughts?
All work must be posted in current APA format.
FNP Role in Primary Care across the lifespan
One main difference of an FNP compared to another provider is the holistic care approach, and care across the lifespan. This approach requires the FNP to consider not only the patients diagnosis, but the patients family, environment, and the patient as a whole. While doing this, FNPs stand out by completing detailed health assessments, vigorously promote health and crusade for disease prevention. Health assessment is physical, mental and emotional and is completed by comprehensive social, health and medical history by preforming physical exams and interviews. I feel that for productive health assessment, FNPs must have extreme attention to detail, clinical reasoning, and good clinical decision-making skills. This will then lead to the FNP ordering any tests / labs / procedures as needed depending upon the assessment findings.
Since FNPs practice the whole life span, this can lead to long-term relationships which can foster positive health choices, disease prevention and health promotion. FNPs are not just treatment providers but often are health coaches and / or educators. They are proactive for their patients to not just be healthy but have an overall healthier lifestyle. FNP are evidenced-based and have multiple theories to help with interventions for desired patient behavior modification such as Health promotion model, theory of planned behavior and health belief model (Thomas et al., 2014, p. 226). They may treat multiple family members which can lead to a household lifestyle change and the FNP grasping a full understanding of the family dynamics, needs and environment. Some barriers identified by both MDs and FNPs for promotion and prevention were provider forgetfulness, lack of knowledge of practice guidelines, time constraints, lack of reimbursement, patient resistance and being too focused on acute problems. Because of these, it is imperative for FNPs to provide superior preventive services as this one strength of the profession is a value added difference (Kapustin, 2010, p. 19).
FNP Role based on population-focused competencies
Population-Focused competencies are in order to help FNPs practice as a more independent practitioner. These competencies are FNP behavior focused and delve into areas such and running the practice and technology/information. This varies from the above paragraphs that describe the FNP role more solely patient centric. These include such topics as scientific foundation (which we translate to our research and theories), leadership, ethics and independent practice to only name a few. After reading over the nine in detail, I was able to see FNP in a new light I was not privy to before this assignment. For the most part, they fall in line with the holistic, evidenced-based patient care I was accustomed to, but then the technology and information competency along with the independent practice opened my eyes. This description shows the FNP as not just a patient care provider, but a leader. A practice leader to the staff, business leader to other practices and to patients and families they cross. This shows that even some of these things are not directly hands-on related to the patient, it all makes a better experience for the patient.
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