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Practice Guidelines
The American Academy of Nursing on policy: Emerging role of baccalaureate registered nurses in primary care (August 20, 2018)
Nursing Outlook
Vol. 66Issue 5p512–517Published in issue: September, 2018
- Patricia Vanhook
- Jordon Bosse
- Margaret Flinter
- Lusine Poghosyan
- Lynne Dunphy
- Debra Barksdale
Cited in Scopus: 11
Increased access to health insurance and health care, increased complexity of patients in our aging society, and challenges in primary care team staffing are among many current challenges to providing high quality, effective, and satisfying care to all patients. At the same time, the team is expected to attend to the equally important need for prevention, health promotion, and care coordination and management of the population at large. The demand to manage multiple, comorbid complex chronic illnesses are overwhelming the primary care system and causing waits, delays, and a shifts toward receiving primary care in inappropriate settings such as the emergency room (ER).