The Medical Home: The Debate Over Who Is Qualified to Drive the Bus

Implications of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for Nursing Practice

“…A semi-structured interview format was used to optimize comparability across interviews and provide respondents with an opportunity to raise topics they identified as important (13). Interviews were conducted by a medical anthropologist, audio-recorded and lasted 30-60 minutes.…”

Position Statement on Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Privileges

“…The medical home model requires primary providers to direct and manage all aspects of the patient's care. Restrictions on prescriptive authority limit the ability of PNPs to provide comprehensive health care services for children and lead a health care/medical home (Dawson & Lighthouse, 2010;Manion, 2013). A clearly defined scope of practice, allowing for full prescriptive privileges, will improve access to pediatric health care provided by highly qualified NPs (Stewart, McNulty, Griffin, & Fitzpatrick, 2010).…”