Primary care physicians are still needed, especially in more rural areas. In order to help the medical community, nurses are being encouraged to gain additional education, to become nurse practitioners. The nurse practitioner can help facilitate the patients’ needs and fill in some of the gaps, while we go through this period of transformation in our health system. Other health care workers will be needed, workers with billing experience, workers who can set up the new technology that will be available to patients. The health care system needs to make sure that the educational programs that are offered line up with the future goals of the hospital or health care facility (Knickman & Kovner, A.,
Primary care physicians are still needed, especially in more rural areas. In order to help the medical community, nurses are being encouraged to gain additional education, to become nurse practitioners. The nurse practitioner can help facilitate the patients’ needs and fill in some of the gaps, while we go through this period of transformation in our health system. Other health care workers will be needed, workers with billing experience, workers who can set up the new technology that will be available to patients. The health care system needs to make sure that the educational programs that are offered line up with the future goals of the hospital or health care facility (Knickman & Kovner, A.,