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The Utilization of Physician Extenders. Mid-Level Providers in a Large Group Practice within a Tertiary Health Care Setting
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Educating Advanced Level Practice within Complex Health Care Workplace Environments through Transformational Practice Development
Over the past 20 years health care reform has influenced the development of advanced level practitioner roles and expectations. How advanced level practitioners work to survive the highly stimulating, yet sometimes overwhelming aspects of balancing high quality provision with political reform agendas, amidst economic constraint is considered. Transformational approaches (encompassing education and practice led service […]
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Mentoring New Nurse Practitioners to Accelerate their Development as Primary Care Providers: A Literature Review
Purpose: To provide a review of the literature regarding programs for mentoring new nurse practitioners (NPs) to accelerate their development as primary care providers. Data sources: A search was conducted in PubMed, Ovid, CINAHL, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Conclusions: There is currently a critical shortage of primary care providers and an aging population […]
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Improving Patient Flow in the Emergency Department by Placing a Family Nurse Practitioner in Triage: A Quality-Improvement Project
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Helping Preceptors Mentor the Next Generation of Nurse Practitioners
At some point in their careers, nurse practitioners, as well as members of other clinical disciplines, may be asked to tutor a primary care student. First-time preceptors, even if they are mature clinicians and enthusiastic about their new role, may find themselves somewhat at a loss regarding faculty and program expectations for themselves and for […]
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Mentoring and Self-Efficacy for Advanced Nursing Practice: A Philosophical Approach for Nurse Practitioner Preceptors
Nurse practitioners (NPs), frequently called upon by graduate schools of nursing to be preceptors for NP students, are asked to play an active role in the socialization of these students as capable primary care providers. Much is expected of the preceptor in the typical short-term clinical preceptorship with little guidance available to her or him. […]
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Athena Found or Lost: The Precepting Experiences of Mentored and Non-Mentored Nurse Practitioner Students
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Promoting Nurse Practitioner Practice through Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons
Purpose: To discuss the opportunities derived, challenges faced, and lessons learned in the research process, including recruiting and retaining nurse practitioner (NP) participants, obtaining institutional approval, and solving research team issues in a National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH/NINR)-funded study of communication between NPs and their older patients in managed care and […]
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Documenting to Improve Pediatric Asthma Outcomes: Practical Tools for Nurse Practitioners
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