The Problems Faced By Family Nurse Practitioner

A nurse practitioner is a nurse who is registered and serves under a physician as primary

and specialty health care provider. Just like a family doctor the family nurse practitioner cares for

the patient throughout the patient life, conducting exams, diagnosing illness and prescribing

medication. Additionally, the family nurse practitioner can run his or her own private practices

and serve patient as a sole health care provider. Family nurse practitioner does not only care for

the patient but is also allowed to diagnose and treat the patient. In the medical community, a

family nurse practitioner is pretty much respected. However, in spite of the advantages of being a

nursing practitioner, the job has it owns challenges such as the issue of trust whereby the patient

may not trust a family nurse practitioner. This is nothing personal against a nurse practitioner but

its prejudice patient has that only a doctor can diagnose and treat them. Other challenges include

the doctor seeing a family nurse practitioner as a competition; the nurse practitioner may feel

inadequate, and the insurance company may be reluctant to pay a family nurse practitioner. In

this literature review, we review work done by a researcher in the past on the problems facing

nurse practitioners. A structured literature search to help synthesize and identify available

evidence on the problems facing the family nursing practitioners in their role of delivering

primary care was conducted. The search strategy used a combination of terms such as family

nursing practitioners, primary health care, and quality of health care. During the search, reviews

were refined to focus only on the challenges or problem facing family nursing practitioners

Unfair Financial Reimbursement

The nurses and doctors both agree that family nursing ought to be able to practice the full

extent of their training as this would improve the primary care offered to the patient and also the