Enhancing the nurse practitioner curriculum to improve telehealth competency

Telehealth and eHealth in nurse practitioner training: current perspectives

Telehealth is becoming a vital process for providing access to cost-effective quality care to patients at a distance. As such, it is important for nurse practitioners, often the primary providers for rural and disadvantaged populations, to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to utilize telehealth technologies in practice. In reviewing the literature, very little information was ...

Nurse practitioner education: a research-based curriculum structure.

BACKGROUND The process and content of nurse practitioner educational preparation has received scant research attention, despite increasing interest in and investigations into nurse practitioner services in Australia and internationally. AIMS The aim of this paper is to report a study investigating the educational process and content required for nurse practitioner preparation. METHODS A tri...

Using standardized patients to teach and evaluate nurse practitioner students on cultural competency.

With the increasing diversity in the American population, it is imperative that nurse practitioners learn to manage patients with varying healthcare beliefs and needs. In order to develop culturally competent nurse practitioners, a number of methods have been developed. Many of the current methods focus on improving the awareness and knowledge of nurse practitioners regarding diverse population...

Exploring the transition from registered nurse to family nurse practitioner.

There is limited information available regarding the transition from registered nurse (RN) to family nurse practitioner (FNP). Several authors described this transition as taking place in 4 stages, and others described it as a 2-phase process. However, there is a lack of consensus about the definition of these stages and phases and at what point they occur for nurses who are making the transiti...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics