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History of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in the United States and Their Contribution to Anesthesia Care: Implication of Nursing Role Expansion to Promote Autonomous and Collaborative Professional Nursing Practice in Japan
Expanding the Pool of Abortion Providers: Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants
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Outcomes, safety, and resource utilization in a collaborative care birth center program compared with traditional physician-based perinatal care
Objective: We compared outcomes, safety, and resource utilization in a collaborative management birth center model of perinatal care versus traditional physician-based care. Methods: We studied 2957 low-risk, low-income women: 1808 receiving collaborative care and 1149 receiving traditional care. Results: Major antepartum (adjusted risk difference [RD] = −0.5%; 95% confidence interval [CI] = −2.5, 1.5), intrapartum […]
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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants as primary care providers in institutional settings
Personal Journal of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit Nurse Practitioner
This article explores one nurse practitioner’s personal observations and experiences associated with developing the nurse practitioner role in a surgical intensive care unit.
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Toward National Comparable Nurse Practitioner Data: Proposed Data Elements, Rationale, and Methods
Federal funds have supported Nurse Practitioner (NP) education and the establishment of nurse-managed centers. Yet, important questions are raised about the quality and appropriate scope of NP care. Few NP-patient encounters are documented in the largest national surveys of ambulatory care, sponsored by the National Center for Health Statistics, due to sampling frames that are […]
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A Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Outcomes of Emergency Nurse Practitioner Service
Aim: To evaluate emergency nurse practitioner service effectiveness on outcomes related to quality of care and service responsiveness. Background: Increasing service pressures in the emergency setting have resulted in the adoption of service innovation models; the most common and rapidly expanding of these is the emergency nurse practitioner. The delivery of high quality patient care […]
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Evaluating Outcomes of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Role in a Major Urban Emergency Department, Melbourne, Australia