Objectives This methodological paper reports on the development and validation of a work sampling instrument and data collection processes to conduct a national study of nurse practitioners’ work patterns. Design Published work sampling instruments provided the basis for development and validation of a tool for use in a national study of nurse practitioner work activities across diverse context...

BACKGROUND The process and content of nurse practitioner educational preparation has received scant research attention, despite increasing interest in and investigations into nurse practitioner services in Australia and internationally. AIMS The aim of this paper is to report a study investigating the educational process and content required for nurse practitioner preparation. METHODS A tri...

Health-care delivery is undergoing significant evolution and change. Task substitution has resulted in some practitioner groups expanding their scope of practice by assuming more complex clinical roles, new practitioner groups have emerged, and consumer-driven demand has changed the way the public engage with health practitioners and the way many health-care services are delivered. Using Austra...

Methods Subjects were healthy volunteers who were told the study was evaluating the effect of time and touch on the autonomic nervous system. The practitioner had more than 10 years experience with lovingkindness meditation (LKM), a form of NVCC. Subjects completed 10-point visual analog scales (VAS) for stress, relaxation and peacefulness before and after LKM. To assess physiologic effects, pr...

Practitioner involvement in evaluation, research, development, and other forms of disciplined inquiry that are small scale, local, grounded, and carried out by professionals who directly deliver those services is embraced across a wide range of professions as essential to good professional practice. However, little is known about the character, homogeneity or diversity, outcomes, motives, and p...

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An extensive search using full-text CINAHL and key words “nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (36 hits); “primary care nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (0 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “hospitalist” (6 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “intensivist” (1 hit) was conducted by Board staff. Google scholar, Medline and ancestry were also used to locate additional references. The literature repo...