Tag: Advanced Practice Providers

We spoke to a neurology nurse practitioner in Georgia to get some insight into how COVID-19 has impacted care – and is shaping the future of healthcare. ‘We're learning that high-quality care can be delivered multiple ways,’ she says.

In the U.S. there are just three formal neurology fellowship programs for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). “That’s simply not enough,” says Calli Cook, DNP, FNP-C, considering how many are entering the field. “So, the vast majority of the time the training falls on the practice hiring the APP.” That can be a pretty big hump…

Between 2012 and 2016, visits to nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) increased 129 percent. That’s according to a 2018 insurance claims review of primary care office visits, which also reported an 18 percent drop in PCP visits in that same time frame. Along with this trend have come some tensions and some sense…