BACKGROUND The nurse practitioner is a growing clinical role in Australia and internationally, with an expanded scope of practice including prescribing, referring and diagnosing. However, key gaps exist in nurse practitioner education regarding governance of specialty clinical learning and teaching. Specifically, there is no internationally accepted framework against which to measure the qualit...

OBJECTIVE To compare the cost effectiveness of general practitioners and nurse practitioners as first point of contact in primary care. DESIGN Multicentre randomised controlled trial of patients requesting an appointment the same day. SETTING 20 general practices in England and Wales. PARTICIPANTS 1716 patients were eligible for randomisation, of whom 1316 agreed to randomisation and 1303...

OBJECTIVE To assess nurse practitioners' interactions with pharmaceutical industry promotional activities and their perception of information reliability and self-reported prescribing behaviors. STUDY DESIGN Self-administered online survey. METHODS A nationally randomized sample of nurse practitioner prescribers was surveyed. Eligibility criteria included current clinical practice and licen...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and types of complementary and alternative medicine therapies used by certified nurse-midwives in North Carolina. METHODS Surveys were sent to all 120 licensed certified nurse-midwives in North Carolina requesting information concerning their recommendations for use of complementary and alternative medicine for their pregnant or postpartum patients. RES...

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Paul Edwards Head of practice development, Bupa UK Care Services, Leeds Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Paul Labourne As...

conclusions the sophistication of electronic prescription and integration with ehr will become a reality, if all its stakeholders collaborate in developing fast and secure electronic prescription systems. it is plausible that the required infrastructure should be provided for implementation of the national integrated electronic prescription systems in countries without the system. given the bar...

BackgroundExpanded patient access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is needed support choice and efficacious forms of contraception. Little known about nurse practitioner (NP) midwife LARC prescribing.AimsTo examine prescribing by NPs midwives in Australia.MethodsA cross-sectional study Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme dispensing data from 2018 2021 for females aged 15–54....