OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of nurse practitioners delivering primary and specialised ambulatory care. DESIGN A systematic review of randomised controlled trials reported since 1980. DATA SOURCES 10 electronic bibliographic databases, handsearches, contact with authors, bibliographies and websites. INCLUDED STUDIES Randomised controlled trials that evaluated nurse practi...

AIM To draw on empirical evidence to illustrate the core role of nurse practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. BACKGROUND Enacted legislation provides for mutual recognition of qualifications, including nursing, between New Zealand and Australia. As the nurse practitioner role is relatively new in both countries, there is no consistency in role expectation and hence mutual recognition has...

This article reports the findings of a study developed to compare health care costs in the United States with those of eight other industrially advanced countries over the period 1960-76. All of the countries studied were found to share with the United States the problem of increased health care spending that has outpaced inflation in other sectors of the economy and continues to consume a grow...

OBJECTIVE Based on the research version of the Carers' Needs Assessment for Schizophrenia (CNA-S) a shortened clinical version was developed for routine assessment of interventions needed by the caregivers of schizophrenia patients in everyday clinical work. METHODS The development of this questionnaire (including a manual explaining its use) was based on results from earlier studies and sugg...

BACKGROUND Amid a national nurse shortage, there is growing concern that high levels of nurse burnout could adversely affect patient outcomes. OBJECTIVES This study examines the effect of the nurse work environment on nurse burnout, and the effects of the nurse work environment and nurse burnout on patients' satisfaction with their nursing care. RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS: We conducted cross-se...

The honey bee has a well-organized system of division of labour among workers. Workers typically progress through a series of discrete behavioural castes as they age, and this has become an important case study for exploring how dynamic changes in gene expression can influence behaviour. Here we applied both digital gene expression analysis and methyl DNA immunoprecipitation analysis to nurse, ...

International nurse migration is natural and to be expected. Recently, however, those who have fostered nurse migration believe that it will solve nursing shortages in developed countries and offer nurse migrants better working conditions and an improved quality of life. Whether natural or manipulated, migration flow patterns largely occur from developing to developed countries. In this article...

background: success in patient care and gain credit for the hospital depend on nurse staff competent and appetency, so they must be lead in suitable manners and it is nurse manager's duty that must have suitable personality and competency for powerful leadership. the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of leadership and its relationship with extrovert/introvert personality. met...