Reference no: EM132721009

Managing Chronic Disease in the Primary Care Setting

Caring for clients with a chronic illness will mean multiple visits and careful managing of their plan of care to include medications, screening exams, and referral. More than 75% of all health care costs in the United States due to chronic illness. The impact that this has on the healthcare system is staggering. With the population aging and more chronic illness occurring, it has never been more important to properly manage this epidemic through the use of cost-effective, evidence based care where it begins: In the primary care setting.

Discuss the impact of chronic disease on health care as a whole.

Examine how evidence based plans of care can reduce the health care cost burden placed on Americans and discuss cost effectiveness achieved by the use of evidence based plans of care.

Discuss the role that advanced practice nurses play in caring for patients with chronic illness from the standpoint of health promotion, medication management, and symptom management, and the importance of this role.