The report includes responses from 395 survey respondents. The survey was conducted online from November through December 2012.
Here are 12 risks to the nurse practitioner profession, according to the survey:
• Backlash from other providers trying to protect their role or competition from other providers — 25 percent
• Increased medical malpractice liability — 21 percent
• Increased workload or limited amount of time to spend with each patient — 19 percent
• Decreasing reimbursement — 15 percent
• Not enough clinical experience — 12 percent
• Restrictions or increases regulations on role from medical board, insurance companies and pharmacy — 12 percent
• Not being valued — 5 percent
• Being asked to practice outside their scope or see higher acuity patients — 6 percent
• Less collaboration from physicians — 3 percent
• Standards of care or protocols being too restrictive — 3 percent
• Being marginalized to family practice role or discouraged from specializing — 2 percent
• No nationwide standards for role — 2 percent
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