Geriatric Nurse Practitioner

Roles of the Geriatric Nurse in the United States versus Japan
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Nurse Practitioners [NP’s] throughout the geriatric population have various roles and responsibilities. Within the United States, nurses have a very structured scope. Geriatric NP’s are specially trained in order to deal with the older population, and the common physiologic and emotional changes that they experience. The leadership role of Geriatric NP’s within the United States is very important, and is growing tremendously with the rapidly increasing age of the population. Due to the rising elderly population, there is a shortage of geriatric practitioners throughout the United States, making the NP’s role increasing important, and relevant (Golden, Silverman & Issenberg, …show more content…
Another benefit of NP master programs within the USA is that they make sure students take courses directly pertaining to global nursing leadership. This is crucial to the effectiveness of their knowledge, skills and practice. It gives nurses the ability to take part in various political advancemnts, as well as leadership roles throughout their nursing careers. The curriculum gives them copious knowledge within their specialty which gives them the knowledge, skills, and autonomy to be leaders within our country and their profession. They can either choose to go with a “combined adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner certification launched in 2013 by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Certification Program and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)” or they could go with a regular gerontological nurse practitioner certification (Golden, Silverman & Issenberg, 2015). Even with the Geriatric NP’s wide range of knowledge, there are certain rules and regulations these nurses must follow in order to stay within their scope of practice. Although the United States has had NP’s for a long time and has a very established curriculum, Japan is not so …show more content…
This is a major barrier for NP’s because it is within their scope of practice to be able to appropriately prescribe medications for patients. Requiring supervision by a physician is taking away both their autonomy, and leadership, which are a part of their professional rights. As mentioned earlier, other barriers depend on where the NP is practicing. The scope of practice varies from state to state and could potentially limit the full practice of the healthcare professional. Another important barrier to mention is the stigma regarding NP’s being less competent than physicians. It is argued time and time again that because NP’s tend to have around 4 or 5 years less of education than physicians, they should not be performing the same care (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2012). Lastly, there is also confrontation between the American Medical Association [AMA] and the ANA. The AMA is trying to propose resolutions that regulate the practices of our advances nurses and make it mandatory that physicians are overseeing all of their actions (Mason et. al,

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