Do Nurse Practitioners Need Postgraduate Training?

Educational preparation and postgraduate training curriculum for pediatric critical care nurse practitioners.

BACKGROUND Nurse practitioners (NPs) in pediatric intensive care units have increased dramatically over recent years. Although state regulations are changing pediatric nurse practitioner certification, licensure and credentialing requirements, available acute care, and critical care educational programs are limited. Thus, entry-level practitioners continue to have varied clinical experience and...

Journal club: Integrating research awareness into postgraduate nurse training.

BACKGROUND Evidence-based nursing requires nurses to maintain an awareness of recently published research findings to integrate into their clinical practice. In the South African setting keeping up with recent literature has additional challenges, including the diversity of nurses' home language, geographically foreign origins of published work, and limited economic resources. Students enrolled...

Do nurse practitioners pose a threat to family physicians?: NO.

Le Médecin de famille canadien Vol 55: january • janVier 2009 Admittedly, the concept of nurse practitioners is not new. As my colleague states, these professionals were originally created in an attempt to address the shortage of physicians, a shortage that in my view persists. Nurse practitioners have not been a panacea for this problem, which is undermining our profession. She also notes that...

Do nurse practitioners pose a threat to family physicians?: YES.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: do you know the difference?

W I was a new graduate nurse working on a medicalsurgical unit, I assumed that Karen was a physician as she rounded and wrote patient care orders. Another nurse identified Karen as a nurse practitioner (NP) and opened my eyes to a whole new world of advanced nursing practice. I was curious to know more about NPs and physician assistants (PAs), whom I also saw in patient care. Was it legal for t...