The traditional role of registered nurses and practical nurses was to remain in the background in support of doctors, Surgeons and other health care providers.. Since the passage and the beginning implementation of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the role of the registered nurse and the practical nurse has suddenly increased.
The registered nurses, the practical nurses, physician assistants, and the osteopathic doctors have all been assured a future role in the medical health care community. Regardless of the type of low cost health insurance policy, underwritten by health insurer, nurses will play a more active role.
Gone are the days when a person in need of medical attention will seek out a physician. We will be re-trained to consult the nearest medical health clinic in our local neighborhoods. The medical health clinics will be well staffed with caring individuals, nurses, and aids to assist in helping the individual to become well, however the physician won’t have the same traditional role
What is really unforgiving is that it did not have to be this way. Sure, there were problems with our health insurance policies. Sure, there were problems with our medical health delivery system. Was there really a need to throw out the entire medical health system and attempt to rebuild a new one from the ground level in order to introduce a universal health care system in this country?
Registered nurses are wonderful, caring, individuals and they have all worked diligently to better serve the communities where they live, but they are not physicians. We’re still going got need the expertise that physician have provided. However as said roles will be changed
Where do the patients who are in need of specialty health services go when they are in dire need of care? The medical health clinics are fine for the mundane, routine medical mishaps that occur, but they will not be equipped to handle the major surgeries and medical care that only a medical health physician can perform.
The practical health nurses will be assigned to continue with their practices with women’s health in the assisted living centers, and the long-term nursing homes. However, will they have the ability to help the patients who require additional health treatments? Who will the practical health nurses turn too when they realize they are over their head?