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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

Additionally, nurse practitioners work with patients to promote wellness and prevent health problems with health education and preventive care. By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services. Twenty-seven states currently allow full practice authority for nurse practitioners.

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Full Practice Authority: APRN Readiness, Barriers to Practice and Access in South Carolina

American Nurse

Additional data highlights 27 of 46 counties having none or fewer than three primary or specialty physicians in the areas of family, women’s health, pediatrics, and psychiatry per 10,000 people. Quality of primary care provided to Medicare beneficiaries by nurse practitioners and physicians. 13 Buerhaus, P., Perloff, J., Smith, V.A.,