Andy
Senior Member (Voting rights)
Highlights
Most nurse practitioners (NPs) practice in primary care settings. Cognitive tools to inform and advance NP understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms can support early recognition, interdisciplinary collaboration, interventions, and prevention of negative outcomes. We describe the development of a model to support NP consideration of gut-brain axis evidence-based pathways, contributing variables, and related health outcomes. The model’s outcomes are factors associated with homeostasis or disruption of biological, psychological, and social systems. This cognitive tool aims to support NP awareness of multidomain gut-brain axis relationships to consider with differential diagnoses and clinical treatment of the “whole body system.”
Open access, https://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(21)00410-4/fulltext
- Because most nurse practitioners practice in primary care settings, developing cognitive tools and science in the area of the gut-brain axis area is critically important.
- The gut-brain axis has mechanisms that affect biopsychosocial attributes of health.
- Health issues are complex and benefit from evidence-informed assessments, differential diagnoses, possible interventions, and collaborations.
Most nurse practitioners (NPs) practice in primary care settings. Cognitive tools to inform and advance NP understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms can support early recognition, interdisciplinary collaboration, interventions, and prevention of negative outcomes. We describe the development of a model to support NP consideration of gut-brain axis evidence-based pathways, contributing variables, and related health outcomes. The model’s outcomes are factors associated with homeostasis or disruption of biological, psychological, and social systems. This cognitive tool aims to support NP awareness of multidomain gut-brain axis relationships to consider with differential diagnoses and clinical treatment of the “whole body system.”
Open access, https://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(21)00410-4/fulltext