Question

Identify a specific concern of a Family Nurse Practitioner and give a recommendation for a practice change.

Answer 1

Ans) FNPs often work with other specialists to co-manage their patients' conditions and provide case management for long-term illnesses and injuries.

- Typical duties include diagnosing conditions, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, conducting examinations, providing counseling, and sometimes prescribing medication.

- In considering the impact of family on health care, the FNP is aware that: Family has significant impact on the health and well-being of its individual members. While there are normative sequences of family development, there are many underlying factors that influence lifestyle transitions and the passage through those stages. Family structure may expand and/or contract by birth, death, divorce, marriage.

- In order to avoid the common errors in family nursing, the FNP is aware it is important to:  Create a context for change is essential. Empathy, mindfulness, and empathetic responding are all needed to create a healing context for change.

- The expanding role of FNPs in health care. “Given their education, experience, and unique perspectives and the centrality of their role in providing care, nurses will play a significant role in the transformation of the health care system."

- FNPs have indeed sparked innovation in wards, anchoring new-and-improved clinical workflows designed to address long-standing issues plaguing the health care space.