Advanced Practice in Family Nursing: One View

Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

International Family Nursing Association: family nursing practice survey findings.

Advanced practice in nursing: conceptual issues.

The issue of defining advanced practice nursing roles is increasingly a subject of national discussion and debate. Central to this discussion has been the issue of merging nurse practitioner (NP) and clinical nurse specialist (CNS) roles and the tendency for the term "nurse practitioner" to replace that of "clinical nurse specialist" in denotation of these roles. The authors note the lack of an...

Advanced nursing practice in the Nordic countries

Health care services are undergoing major change and reform, with restructuring and re-engineering taking place world-wide. Many factors have influenced these changes. They include: (1) the use of high technology with the increased possibility of medical interventions, (2) people living longer and thus the number of older people needing health care increasing, (3) changes in family structure wi...

Advanced practice in pediatric nursing: blending roles.

In the past, pediatric advanced practice nurse's roles were the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the inpatient setting and the Nurse Practitioner (NP) in the outpatient setting. With health care system changes, such as the shifting and blurring boundaries between inpatient and outpatient care, changes were required in the graduate curricula to blend the CNS and NP roles into an advanced pract...