There is a substantial body of literature pertaining to the role of the nurse practitioner. Research directed towards consumer satisfaction suggests that the care provided by nurse practitioners is perceived as at least equal to that provided by a medical practitioner. However, there is a paucity of literature examining the nurse practitioner role in the psychiatric/mental health field. An eval...

Nurse practitioners have become an increasingly important part of the US medical workforce as they have gained greater practice authority through state-level regulatory changes. This study investigates one labor market impact of this large change in nurse practitioner regulation. Using data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses and a dataset of state-level nurse practitioner pres...

. 12.00 background: most countries use educated nurses called “nurse practitioners” (nps) besides the family physicians for diagnosis, treatment, and specifically health education of the family. the main goal of this study was to redefine the role of nps for better use of their capabilities in the so-called “family physician reform” in iran. materials and methods: this is a qualitative and comp...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This research aimed to understand the level and scope of practice of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand further using a capability framework. BACKGROUND The original study, from which the present paper was developed, sought to identify competency standards for the extended role of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand. In doing so the researc...

Abstract Introduction Primary care nurse practitioners (NPs) receive little to no sleep education in graduate programs despite being first-line providers for patients presenting with sleep-related symptoms. Sleep curriculum has been consistently identified as a gap nursing and confirmed recent survey studies of nurses NPs. Methods Qualitative descriptive study explore NP students’ reactions an ...

AIMS This article provides insight into the potential economic viability of nurse practitioner employment in Dutch general practices. BACKGROUND General practitioners face the challenging task of finding the most efficient and effective mix of professionals in general practice to accommodate future care demands within scarce health care budgets. To enable informed decision-making about skill ...

AIM This paper describes the establishment of the first Japanese nurse practitioner graduate programme and legislative activities to institutionalize nurse practitioners in Japan. BACKGROUND To address the super-ageing population, Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences initiated the first academic graduate level nurse practitioner programme in Japan, based upon the global standard def...

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Denise M. Lemke has 27 years of experience as a staff nurse in a neurological intensive care unit, as a neurosurgical coordinator, as a nurse practitioner in neurosurgery, as a nurse practitioner in interventional neuroradiology, and currently as a neurocritical care nurse practitioner in the department of neurology. She has a special interest in traumatic brain inju...

AIMS The aim of this paper is to report a trial to investigate the feasibility of the nurse practitioner role in local health service delivery and to provide information about the educational and legislative requirements for nurse practitioner practice. BACKGROUND Nurse practitioners have been shown to offer a beneficial service and fill a gap in health care provision. However, the lack of pu...