Nurse practitioners in the accident and emergency department.
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Nurse practitioners in the emergency department.
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are “registered nurses with additional educational preparation and experience who possess and demonstrate the competencies to autonomously diagnose, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe pharmaceuticals and perform specific procedures within their legislated scope of practice. (Canadian Nurses Association [CNA], 2006, p. 19). The NP role is derived “from blen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1989
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.6.4.241