Regulation of Workforce
T/F Workforce policy has focused on demands made by health professionals rather than the patients
What is true?
T/F The number of new nurses entering the profession with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) has continued to rise steadily.
What is True?
T/F One-third of primary care visits involve preventive care.
What is False?
One of the underlying themes of team based care is substituting high cost providers with cheaper alternatives. What is one type of provider suggested to take on some of the responsibilities of a physician?
What is a nurse practitioner or physician's assistant?
This percent of a clinician’s time could be allocated away from uncomplicated upper respiratory infections, cys-titis, and musculoskeletal problems.
What is 10 percent?
In NC, a hairdresser must be licensed, but a _____________ technician need not be.
What is radiology.
Registered nurses must pass this test in order to practice.
What is the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX)?
This is the workforce that if expanded would enhance primary care capacity and create more jobs.
What is medical assistants?
This is the name of the government program that offered incentives to adopt EHR systems that are currently shaping the work of health care providers.
What is Meaningful Use?
In addition to self-care, patients with chronic conditions can add primary care capacity by serving as __________ for patients with the same conditions.
What is a peer coach?
In an occupation that does not require licensing, competence can be proven by earning this.
What is a certification
For the first time in 2017, the inflow of NP's and PA's exceeded the inflow of these.
What are physicians?
This type of care consumes 46% of primary care physicians’ time.
What is acute care?
Groups of people whose roles continuously shift in response to internal and external forces, including patient expectations; policy and payment changes; organizational factors; geographic proximity of other providers; and professional regulation, training, and attitudes.
What are teams?
A healthcare service that allows for home-based management of diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, and HIV, saving thousands of time-consuming physician visits.
What is telemedicine?
This type of Scope of Practice (SOP) involves what you are legally allowed to do and can vary by state.
What is legal scope of practice?
These nurses have had two or three years of training but have not received a college degree.
What are diploma nurses?
3 common policy recommendations for increasing the number of primary care physicians in the U.S are primary care reimbursement, improving the stress of primary care work life, and ____________.
What is graduating more NP's and PA's?
There are two broad categories of roles for new healthcare arrangements: 1) lower-cost health professionals functioning as supplements who extend and enhance the work of others and 2) _________________________.
What are lower cost health professionals acting as substitutes for higher-cost ones?
A ___% increase in primary care Medicare payments would be needed to greatly narrow the current primary care-specialty income gap.
What is 50%?
Although they cannot provide a single “right” answer, this method aims to stimulate the effect of policy change and educate stakeholders about the effects of policy options (i.e. to address workforce shortfalls or surpluses).
What are workforce projections?
Between 2008 and 2016, the percent of the primary care providers in rural areas that were NPs jumped from 17.6% to what percentage?
What is 25.2%?
This percent of US medical students choose to pursue family medicine or general internal medicine (adult primary carers).
What is 9%?
The five wedges that combine to meet the growing need for primary care services include: clinicians, nonclinician licensed practitioners, nonlicensed personnel, patients, and _______.
What is technology?
Growing demand for adult primary care comes from the aging baby boomers, insurance expansion, and the epidemics of _____ and ______.
What is obesity and diabetes?