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Article: NPs provide clinical support to bedside nurses.
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- Critical Care Management
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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NPs provide clinical support to bedside nurses
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Most of the clamor about health care reform has focused on patients rights and curbing managed care abuses. Federal health officials are also taking stock of how health care providers, including critical care nurses, are redefining themselves in the changing reimbursement environment.
According to one expert, job descriptions in acute-care nursing are changing to meet new economic demands. Bedside nurses in critical care are likely to benefit from the trend, says Paul Logan, CRNP, MSN, an acute-care nurse practitioner at Montgomery Hospital. The 180-bed ...