Public Health Promotion: Autonomy of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Nurse practitioner role implementation in Ontario public health units.

OBJECTIVES To identify the barriers and facilitators associated with the implementation of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in Ontario's public health units (PHUs), the NPs' job satisfaction, and the relationship between NP job satisfaction and practice dimensions. METHODS This descriptive study involved a postal survey of all NPs (N = 29) working in Ontario PHUs. RESULTS Twenty-eight (96.5...

Reliability of ophthalmic accident and emergency referrals: a new role for the emergency nurse practitioner?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Annual attendances at the accident and emergency (A&E) department of St Bartholomew's and The Royal London NHS Trust exceed 100,000 people of which 6% are ophthalmic. This study evaluated the accuracy of eye referrals from A&E senior house officers (SHOs) and emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) and the impact any inaccuracies may have had on out of hours work. METHO...

[The promotion of women's autonomy during family health nursing consultations].

We adopted a qualitative approach combined with the methodological framework of Paulo Freire, consisting of thematic investigation, coding and decoding, and critical unveiling, to understand whether nursing consultation promotes women's autonomy in a health center. Six Culture Circles that were each two hours long were conducted, with an average of nine participants each, between May and July 2...

The Sociological Practitioner in Organizational Health Promotion Programming

In this paper, the roles of the sociological practitioner will be investigated as they apply to the rapidly growing field of organizational health promotion. Health promotion programs include a combination of educational, organizational, and environmental activities designed to support health-conducive behavior within the work setting. Such programs usually include weight reduction programs, ae...

Public health issues---aspects of health promotion.