On the Front Line

Autor/in	Ruffins, Paul
Titel	On the Front Line
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 28 (2011) 19, S.13-14 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	Allied Health Occupations; Physicians; Nurses; Access to Health Care; Job Simplification; Emerging Occupations; Health Services; Health Needs; Role Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsberuf; Physician; Doctor; Arzt; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Role conception; Rollenverständnis
Abstract	Physician assistants take on primary care duties that were once the exclusive domain of physicians. According to Kevin Lohenry, director of the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California, there are either 90,000 or 30 million reasons why someone might see a physician assistant rather than a physician. The 30 million is the number of Americans who don't have ready access to health care. He stresses that the crisis in primary care is even more acute today, and it's not just a function of money, but also the distribution of doctors by geography and specialty. Across the country, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can perform almost all of the duties previously carried out by primary care physicians. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants make up the largest number of clinicians within a growing group of advanced practitioners. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10