Give your Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants the back-up they need for hospital night coverage
You might find one answer to your staffing challenges is greater involvement by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants on your clinical team, particularly when you are managing hospital night coverage. Nurses and advanced practitioners are often hesitant to wake a full-time doctor to answer a question. And, when they do connect with the on-call doctor, there is often a delay before the patient is seen.
