UVM Theses and Dissertations
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Print
Author:
Dupuis, Stacey L.
Title:
Dept./Program:
Nursing
Year:
2013
Degree:
MS
Abstract:
Healthcare costs have escalated dramatically in the past four decades ("Health Care Costs," 2012). One identified area of healthcare expense is the increasing number ofpatients with chronic disease. Effective chronic disease management that utilizes and embraces a patient centered approach has been supported to improve health outcomes, while reducing healthcare spending (Nixon, Smith, & Chamberlain, 2006).
Primary care providers have an instrumental role in managing chronic disease. Increasingly, nurse practitioners are being utilized in primary care roles. In order to determine personality types and characteristics of future nurse practitioners, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was administered to nurse practitioner students at a New England graduate nursing college. Over 50% of surveyed participants had a personality type combining intuitive and feeling, and 24% of participants shared one personality type, extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving (ENFP).
The personality characteristics of intuitive-feeling types include many assets found in a patient centered approach to chronic disease management, including strengths in education, motivation, fostering positive growth and change, and creative problem solving. The findings of this research support that this group o fnurse practitioner students has many strengths of the patient centered approach to chronic disease management. This finding can be extrapolated to suggest these nurse practitioner students would reduce healthcare spending through use of the patient centered approach to chronic disease management.
Primary care providers have an instrumental role in managing chronic disease. Increasingly, nurse practitioners are being utilized in primary care roles. In order to determine personality types and characteristics of future nurse practitioners, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was administered to nurse practitioner students at a New England graduate nursing college. Over 50% of surveyed participants had a personality type combining intuitive and feeling, and 24% of participants shared one personality type, extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving (ENFP).
The personality characteristics of intuitive-feeling types include many assets found in a patient centered approach to chronic disease management, including strengths in education, motivation, fostering positive growth and change, and creative problem solving. The findings of this research support that this group o fnurse practitioner students has many strengths of the patient centered approach to chronic disease management. This finding can be extrapolated to suggest these nurse practitioner students would reduce healthcare spending through use of the patient centered approach to chronic disease management.