Letter to the editor

Order Description
A two page Letter to the Editor in response to concerns/reservations regarding nurse practitioner practice and participation in Patient Centered-Medical Home (PCMH) Programs expressed in a White Paper by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The White Paper is entitled, “Ensuring a Quality, Physician-Led Team for Every Patient,” published in 2012 and is posted in Canvas under Content. This new approach to primary care is likely to be a major way that primary care is provided in the future; thus it is important that nurse practitioners be seen as major players in the PCMH movement.

The format for a Business Letter should be followed such as one might use when writing a letter applying for a nurse practitioner job or for entry into graduate school. Grammar/syntax must be appropriate (Merriam Webster online dictionary defines syntax as “the way in which words are put together to form phrases or sentences.” This must be no more than two pages, and single spaced as appropriate for a business letter.

Assignment Guidelines for Letter to the Editor

After surveying the scholarly literature so that your letter can contain at least a couple of citations supporting your point of view, and from your learning from this course, write a two page single spaced Letter to the Editor of AAFP White Paper in standard business letter format regarding the concerns/reservations raised in the White Paper assigned to you. Include a Reference List of your citations though in practice one would not include a list of references in a Letter to the Editor. Note: This is an individual assignment, not a group assignment. All MSN standards for scholarly writing must be applied to this paper. APA format is NOT needed for this paper except for the Reference List and the letter should be written in the first person.

This is the white paper the letter is responding to

https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/about_us/initiatives/AAFP-PCMHWhitePaper.pdf

Other references

https://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/Positions-and-Resolutions/Issue-Briefs/APRNs-as-PCPs.pdf

https://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/federal-legislation/medicare/68-articles/349-the-medical-home

The goal of this letter is to advocate to the editor of this white paper why nurse practitioners are important to primary care and that we can take care of patients as well as doctors. The paper is against nurse practitioners practicing on their own and thinks there should be a doctor working with and above them.
Yes, we don’t have the same amount of school, but we are advance practice nurses who take a holistic approach when treating patients and have been doing this for years.