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Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care. V. Development of the Utilization and Financial Index to Measure Effects of their Deployment
The new Utilization and Financial Index (UF-Index) was developed to measure the economic effects of deployment of new health professionals or of other changes in the provision of health services. By means of several steps, information on concurrent use of various categories of health service is converted into a single quantitative index. The index has […]
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Shaping Advanced Nursing Practice in the New Millennium
Objectives: To provide a review of converging themes and trends that are shaping advanced practice nursing roles in oncology nursing. Data sources: Review and research articles, text-books, and organization documents. Conclusions: The current managed care environment provides many opportunities and challenges for oncology advanced practice nurses. Advanced practice nurses have both clinical and organization competencies […]
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Exploring Outcomes of a Nurse Practitioner-Managed Cardiac Surgery Follow-Up Intervention: A Randomized Trial
Aims: To describe and compare the outcomes of a nurse practitioner-managed cardiac surgery follow-up model of care with the standard model of primary care provider follow-up for coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients. Background: Advances in healthcare have had a favourable impact on length of stay following cardiac surgery; however, the shorter length of stay […]
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Utilization of Advanced Practice Nurses in Healthcare Systems and Multispecialty Group Practice
Cost-effective strategies for delivering primary care require the appropriate mix of healthcare providers. The authors define the scope of practice for the advanced practice nurse. Results of a nationwide survey of 26 large healthcare systems and multispecialty group practices are presented. Findings from these practice settings are contrasted with those previously reported in the literature. […]
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Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: An Advanced Practice Role for RN First Assistants
ACUTE CARE NURSE PRACTITIONERS (ACNPs) are advanced practice RNs who are educationally prepared to provide advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness. THE EDUCATION of advanced practice nurses should prepare them for the setting in which they practice; ACNPs are well prepared for hospital and specialty practice, particularly if they […]
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Determined Persistence: Achieving and Sustaining Job Satisfaction among Nurse Practitioners
Purpose: Job satisfaction of nurse practitioners (NPs) has been studied using quantitative methods. A grounded theory approach was used in this study to understand the contextual nature of the NPs’ description of job satisfaction from a personal perspective. Data source: A grounded theory approach as described by Glaser and Strauss was used in this study. […]
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The Development of Advanced Nursing Practice Globally
Purpose: To examine the development of advanced nursing practice globally. Methods: Data were collected from documentary resources available in the International Nurse Practitioners/Advanced Practice Nurse Network (INP/APNN) of the International Council of Nurses. The areas examined were guided by the “key informant survey on advanced nursing practice self-administered questionnaire.” Two core members of the INP/APNN […]
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