NURSES HELPING DOCTORS?

There is a new kind of nurse practitioner emerging.

The DNP. The Doctor Nurse Practitioner.

Last week’s Wall Street Journal carried and article called “Making Room for the “Dr. Nurse.” It looks as if it is part of a series called “THE INFORMED PATIENT”

This seems to be the solution to the shortage of primary care physicians in the USA.

As the shortage of primary-care physicians mounts, the nursing profession is offering a possible solution: the “doctor nurse.”

WALL STREET IS INTERESTED IN THE DOCTOR NURSE

Who in the nursing profession is helping out by offering this solution?

Mary Mundinger, Dean of New York’s Columbia University School of Nursing.

Mary Mundinger says:

“The two year programs, including a one year residency, create a “hybrid practitioner” with more skills, knowledge and training than a nurse practitioner with a master’s degree.

Mary Mundinger also says:

“DNP’s are being trained to have more focus than doctors on coordinating care among many specialists and health care settings.”

Mary Mundinger, who herself seems to be a Dr. Nurse reassures doctors:

“The primary aim of the DNP is not to usurp the role of the physician, but to deal with the fact that there simply won’t be enough of them to care for patients with increasingly complex care needs”

Do you think, that an alternative solution might be to train more doctors or at least make primary care in the USA more attractive to the medical profession?

You don’t think so, My Black Cat?

You smell a rat?

Do you suppose our CMO became aware of this new idea during one of his trips to Neverland?

Do you suppose it’s one of the reasons he consistently says “we need more doctors?”

Why do you suppose The Wall Street Journal thinks its a good idea to inform patients about Dr Nurses?

Is The Wall Street Journal not usually more concerned with big business than with patients?

Will you try to catch that rat soon, My Black Cat, and let me know what you’ve found.

Tomorrow maybe?

Or the next day?

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