Case Study: Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner

New Mexico is a welcoming state for Advance Practice Nurse Practitioners. In the city of Albuquerque there are three major providers of healthcare: University of New Mexico, Presbyterian, and Albuquerque Health Partners. In a broad search for job postings with each of these organizations, there are multiple opportunities for a Family Nurse Practitioner. These opportunities are in clinics, in-patient setting, specialty settings such an oncology and gastroenterology. Each of these organizations has a separate focus. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a non-for profit organization that is the primary site for the noninsured or underinsured residents of New Mexico and the surrounding Indian Reservations just outside its boarders. It is
An example of this could be establishing a mechanism with my patients that allows and encourages them to be seen immediately after being discharge from the hospital to reestablish care be updated on current event with medication changes and follow appointments. This could be a tool used to decrease the readmission rate back to the hospital within a month of discharge that is the current trend. Hamric et al (2014) state this is the trend among 2.6 million seniors and accounts for $26 billion annually. My leadership competency could also by utilized by supporting and guiding staff members to adopt and help facilitate this type of transitional care
of the Nurse Practice Act gives the qualification, practice, examination, and endorsement outline for the Certified Nurse Practitioner, effective July 1,2014. It states that after being licensed by the New Mexico State Board of Nursing, a Nurse Practitioner may practice beyond the scope of a registered nurse, idependently by making decisions regarding health care needs of patients including prescribing and distributing medications including dangerous drugs and controlled substances. The certified nurse practitioner may serve as primary acute, chronic long term, and end of life health care provider. When it is necessary, collaborate with licensed medical doctors, osteopathic physicians or podiatrists (New Mexico Board of Nursing, 2014). The Nurse Practice Act would allow me as a Nurse Practitioner to independently provide health care services in an acute, primary, or end of life capacity to the underserved population of