How To Increase Your Value as an Advanced Practice Provider By Guest Blogger Becky Hopfinger, FNP-C As we have heard so many times in the past few months, we are going through unprecedented times with COVID-19. The healthcare model has significantly changed with the pandemic and there is no sign of fully going back to the way that things once were. We are now utilizing different avenues to provide care to our patients, and healthcare itself has completely transformed. As nurse practitioners and.