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FROM THE EDITORS LWW/AENJ AENJ-Forword January 29, 2008 16:16 Char Count= 0 Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1–2 Copyright c 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins FROM THE Editors K. Sue Hoyt, Jean A. Proehl Future Forces in Healthcare: New Roles tracted by numerous payment and regulatory for Nurses issues (PwC, 2007). Two of the “future forces” discussed in the report were the blurring of nurse and physi- A recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ cian roles in primary care and a prediction Health Research Institute provides informa- that rainmaker roles may change for hospitals. tion regarding current workforce challenges Nurse and physician roles are blurring in in healthcare. primary care. According to PwC researchers, The federal government predicts that nurse hospitals in the United States now rely more and physician retirements will contribute to a heavily on physician extenders, such as nurse shortage of nearly 1 million nurse and 24,000 practitioners and physician assistants. Com- doctors by 2020 (PwC, 2007). Presently, nurses and physicians are not dispersed or uti- petition for these clinicians is increasing, lized effectively in the United States. Unfor- particularly with the advent of retail health tunately, future shortage statistics are based clinics, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal Wolters Kluwer Health

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Proehl, Jean A.
Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal , Volume 30 (1) – Jan 1, 2008
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LWW/AENJ AENJ-Forword January 29, 2008 16:16 Char Count= 0 Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1–2 Copyright c 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins FROM THE Editors K. Sue Hoyt, Jean A. Proehl Future Forces in Healthcare: New Roles tracted by numerous payment and regulatory for Nurses issues (PwC, 2007). Two of the “future forces” discussed in the report were the blurring of nurse and physi- A recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ cian roles in primary care and a prediction Health Research Institute provides informa- that rainmaker roles may change for hospitals. tion regarding current workforce challenges Nurse and physician roles are blurring in in healthcare. primary care. According to PwC researchers, The federal government predicts that nurse hospitals in the United States now rely more and physician retirements will contribute to a heavily on physician extenders, such as nurse shortage of nearly 1 million nurse and 24,000 practitioners and physician assistants. Com- doctors by 2020 (PwC, 2007). Presently, nurses and physicians are not dispersed or uti- petition for these clinicians is increasing, lized effectively in the United States. Unfor- particularly with the advent of retail health tunately, future shortage statistics are based clinics,

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