Primary and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Networking: The Case for a Cup of Coffee

摘要

Calling the US system of health care complex is an understatement. It has over 5900 companies providing health insurance with approximately 18 million health care workers and an annual cost of $3.5 trillion. Such complexity can lead to estrangement of practice among different health care providers and impede the common objective of providing quality health care. Practice silos are common in health care disciplines including advanced practice nursing. For example, the separation between acute and primary care advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) occurs in education and training as well as by specialty track.