State Responses to COVID-19: Potential Benefits of Continuing Full Practice Authority for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a shock to our healthcare system, producing a sudden growth in the need for health care services. It has exposed the vulnerabilities of our health care system, particularly a shortage of adequately trained health care providers (Lopez, Hart,& Katz, 2021). The pandemic disproportionately affected historically marginalized groups and accentuated the health disparities and unequal access to care facing millions of Americans (Lopez et al., 2021). The pandemic has brought attention to the fragile primary care system and its inability to meet the demand for health care services.

Source: Nursing Outlook - August 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Lusine Poghosyan, Joyce Pulcini, Garrett K. Chan, Lynne Dunphy, Grant R. Martsolf, Karen Greco, Barbara A. Todd, Sandra C. Brown, Margaret Fitzgerald, Amy L. McMenamin, P. Ann Solari-Twadell Source Type: research