Advancing Rural Healthcare: The APN Educator’s Ways and Means

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When assessing the current state of healthcare in the United States, properly forming an answer requires the separation of healthcare by geography, demographics, and economics. These factors influence the quality and availability of services and resources available to clients and professionals. The urban areas will usually have greater access to an array of services and resources, whereas the rural areas will see limitation in this regard. The rural community is normally a place with an eclectic collection of self-reliant people many of whom have never been exposed, within the context of healthcare, to the complexities contained within the healthcare organizations in urban environments. This factor does not eliminate or alleviate, for that matter, the increasing healthcare needs in rural areas. In fact in many respects it advances the need for better healthcare resources. The limited availability to health care and healthcare specialist is rising in rural areas. (Consumer Brochure, 2006) To meet client needs, healthcare professionals must pursue a greater understanding of healthcare and medicine in general to suitably satisfy what is required by the profession and consumer. Evolution of healthcare in the past two decades has created a rift between the needs of the rural community and the access to specialty care to meet these needs in more urban areas. These gaps have contributed to an erosion of sorts in healthcare at the rural level. Education and advanced understanding of the purposes and proper approaches to healthcare are critical to the building a solid foundation for the growth of healthcare within the rural community. Economic constraints within the rural area only emphasize the problem in retaining the human resources re...

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