… Hospital medicine is the fastest growing medical specialty in the United States. In 2010, the
Society of Hospital Medicine estimated that there were over 28,000 practicing hospitalists in …

… as providers at teaching hospitals.1 These restrictions … nurse practitioners (NPs) and
physicians' assistants in providing inpatient care. The NP hospitalist role includes inpatient medical …

… nonphysician providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants (NPPAs) into a
hospital medicine practice is their … Medical institutions seeking to add NPPAs to their hospital …

… Nurse Practitioner complication rate data was compared, for the same period, with
hospital medical record diagnostic coding and a random selection (n = 122) of retrospective …

… Nurse practitioners are not only familiar with hospital policies and issues specific to patients
… Nurse practitioners can facilitate continuity of care, unlike medical residents who rotate to dif…

… Since nurse practitioner (NP) training programs were created nearly 50 years ago, NPs have
assumed increasing responsibilities as providers in the health care system. Over the past 5 …

… previous studies that have shown that nurses report better communication with NPs … nursing
component in their NP role,22 we hypothesized that nurse satisfaction on inpatient medicine …

… nurse practitioners in 2011 (92% of nurse practitioners in the United States that year). We
selected nurse practitioners in … (adolescent medicine, adult medicine, family medicine, general …

… plan for an AGACNP hospitalist student. The Society of Hospital Medicine core measures
served … Advanced practice nurses currently practicing in hospital medicine may also choose to …

… Medical staff were equally concerned that nurse practitioners … , leaving the more mundane
tasks to the medical staff. … support the medical and nursing staff throughout the hospital when …