America Needs Nurse Practitioners to Advocate for Social Justice

The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Implications for Nurse Education Programs

This essay examines ethical considerations in the nurse patient relationship, in particular the relationship between "professional morality" and the nurse's professional identity in the role of advocate for doctors, patients, and hospitals. A discussion of ethics and professionals explores professional ethics, the need for such ethics, and their expression in licensing and certification, where ...

Psychiatric clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, or the new practice doctorate: meeting patients' needs?

Poverty , Inequality and Social Justice in Nonmetropolitan America

Nurse practitioners' information needs and information seeking: implications for practice and education.

This report is an exploratory study of the information needs and information seeking in a sample of nurse practitioners (NPs) approved to practice in North Carolina. A search and review of relevant literature revealed no studies on this topic. In this study, NPs report their most frequent information needs relate to drug therapy, diagnosis, and other therapy. Their most frequently used informat...

A National Needs Assessment of Canadian Nurse Practitioners Regarding Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes

Introduction: In Canada, the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) has given nurse practitioners (NPs) the power to authorize cannabis for therapeutic purposes (CTP) to eligible patients. This expansion in NPs' scope of practice underscores the importance of delivering balanced, evidence-based education on cannabis to NPs. The aim of this national study was to assess NPs' ...