Autonomy in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Perspectives
Autonomy in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Perspectives
(Autonomy in Healthcare)
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are integral to healthcare, offering unique perspectives on autonomy within the field. Their role often involves a high degree of autonomy, particularly in primary care settings. NPs are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat patients, allowing them to independently manage a wide range of health concerns. This autonomy empowers NPs to provide timely and effective care, especially in underserved areas where access to physicians may be limited. However, while autonomy is valued, NPs also recognize the importance of collaboration within interdisciplinary teams, ensuring comprehensive patient care. Challenges to autonomy may arise from legal and regulatory constraints, as well as varying scopes of practice across different regions. Despite these challenges, NPs continue to advocate for expanded roles and increased autonomy to better meet the diverse healthcare needs of their patients. Ultimately, autonomy for NPs is not just about individual freedom, but about optimizing patient outcomes and promoting a more accessible and equitable healthcare system.
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I chose unstructured interview to address my research question, should Nurse Practitioner work independently, why or why not? Level of measurement would be nominal. Unstructured interview is also called discovery interview or informal interview. It is a guided conversation. It includes open ended questions. This type of interview is more flexible than others since questions can be changed and adapted depending on the answers. It also generates qualitative data and provides increased validity since it gives a chance to the person being interviewed to offer a more in depth answer. One of the disadvantages includes being time consuming (Mcleod, 2014).
The level of measurement “Nominal” is used for qualitative research. It distinguishes by name. In my research, it will distinguish Family nurse practitioners from physicians. It represents the lowest level of measurement (Osherson, 2017).
For my research, I will choose the same amount of Nurse practitioners and physicians and I will ask them if they feel Nurse practitioners should work independently without physicians oversight and what is their reasoning behind their answers.
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Mcleod, S. (2014). Interviews. The interview method. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/interviews.html
