Did You Know: The Truth About Nurse Practitioners

There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that traditional healthcare costs are out of control. The best way to avoid the effects of illness on your bank account and your psyche is to stay well—that’s the goal of Viaro’s Direct Primary Care (DPC) Model—keep you healthy. When you do need care, Viaro provides high quality healthcare affordably. 

Viaro DPC and the impact it has on solving the healthcare crisis, especially for access to quality care and cost containment, is being undermined by politics and misinformation. Viaro is committed to transparency in all things, helping you understand the truths, and to dispel myths.

Cost Transparency. Costs are contained at Viaro partly by relying on Nurse Practitioners (NP). Did you know that NPs have been providing high-quality patient care for more than half a century? The recent uptick in misinformation about NPs in the media prompted the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) to share the facts that dispel the myths standing in the way of patient choice and full and direct access to NP-delivered care. 

The Myth. You may hear that NPs don’t have the right training or education to provide quality care without a doctor present. While it’s true that in Wisconsin NPs must have a collaborating physician, meaning they must be available if necessary for consultation by some means, in many states, NPs have full practice authority without this collaboration.  

The Fact. NPs do have the right training and education to provide you with care.  

• NPs have been providing high-quality patient care for over 50 years, and hundreds of studies consistently demonstrate care outcomes like that of physicians. 
• The NP workforce has the clinical education and preparation necessary to diagnose, treat, manage and prescribe medications. Today’s health care provider workforce shares overlapping knowledge and skill, and no one discipline owns any one aspect of care. 
• NPs assess patients, order and interpret diagnostic tests, make diagnoses and initiate and manage treatment plans and prescribe medications. 
• Becoming an NP requires at least six years of academic and clinical preparation. NPs begin their careers as registered nurses and complete nationally accredited graduate, master’s or doctoral degree programs for advanced clinical education beyond their initial registered nurse preparation.  
• NPs practice under the laws of the state in which they are licensed, and they are nationally certified in their population and clinical focus areas, such as family practice, pediatrics or psychological/mental health. 
• Today’s national NP program accreditation requirements, competency-based standards and national certification exams ensure that NPs are prepared to provide safe, high-quality, evidence-based patient care from the point of graduation. 

Know that at Viaro our priority is your needs. For the good of our Nation’s healthcare, share the facts about NPs. Anyone interested in Viaro is invited to tour all our facilities. We are honored to share our mission and vision. You really can Expect Better.  

Teresa Pulvermacher FNP – C 

President, ViaroHealth 

For questions or comments, contact wellness@viarohealth.com