The Advanced Critical Care Practitioner: Trailblazing or Selling out?

Position statement: nurse practitioner in critical care.

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The patient perspective: arthritis care provided by Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care program-trained clinicians

OBJECTIVE To assess patient satisfaction with the arthritis care services provided by graduates of the Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) program. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional evaluation using a self-report questionnaire for data collection. Participants completed the Patient-Doctor Interaction Scale, modified to capture patient-practitioner interact...

Critical Care Concepts, Role, and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Advanced technologies in trauma critical care management.

Care of critically injured patients has evolved over the 50 years since Shoemaker established one of the first trauma units at Cook County Hospital in 1962. Modern trauma intensive care units offer a high nurse-to-patient ratio, physicians and midlevel providers who manage the patients, and technologically advanced monitors and therapeutic devices designed to optimize the care of patients. This...

The History and Physical in Cancer Care: A Primer for the Oncology Advanced Practitioner

Advanced practitioners (APs) specializing in cancer care will most likely need to perform or participate in obtaining the history and physical (H & P) of a new patient. The core infrastructure of the history-taking and physical examination process remains the same across all patients regardless of diagnosis. There are, however, important distinctions in the H & P of the patient with cancer. The...