CREATING CLINICAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT NURSE PRACTITIONER CLINICAL PRACTICE

Australian Nurse Practitioner Practice: Value Adding through Clinical Reflexivity

The role of the Australian Nurse Practitioner (NP) is in its infancy and at a crossroads where extensive research demonstrates effective quality care and yet the role remains underrecognised and underutilised. The translation of practice into "value" is critical for the sustainability of NP roles and requires the practitioner to adopt a systematic method of inquiry. Kim's (1999) "Critical Refle...

Scope of emergency nurse practitioner practice: where to beyond clinical practice guidelines? AUTHOR

Aim The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the issues around continuing development of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) role in a Victorian metropolitan Emergency Department (ED) setting. More specifically the discussion will consider the evolving clinical practice of the ENP in relation to clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and optimal utilisation of ENP skills and expertise. Backgr...

Evidence-based practice for the busy nurse practitioner: part one: relevance to clinical practice and clinical inquiry process.

PURPOSE Evidence-based practice (EBP) continues to gain momentum within health care. The purpose of this four-part EBP series is to provide an introductory overview of the EBP process, emphasizing EBP steps one through three, in order to assist nurse practitioners (NPs) in building EBP skills that can be integrated into clinical practice. The relevance of EBP to the NP's clinical practice, an i...

The core role of the nurse practitioner: practice, professionalism and clinical leadership.

AIM To draw on empirical evidence to illustrate the core role of nurse practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. BACKGROUND Enacted legislation provides for mutual recognition of qualifications, including nursing, between New Zealand and Australia. As the nurse practitioner role is relatively new in both countries, there is no consistency in role expectation and hence mutual recognition has...

"Deadly spin" on nurse practitioner practice.