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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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On being a Mentor to Nurse Practitioner Students: The Preceptor-Student Relationship
This article explores the identity of NPs as clinical practice preceptors and mentors for NP students, including the inherent conflict created for preceptors by these overlapping role expectations. Also examined is the nurse practitioner-student relationship with phases of the relationship between student and preceptor/mentor presented. Issues related to student and preceptor role development and personal […]
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Performance Evaluation and Patient Outcomes Monitored by Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse-Midwives in Florida
In this descriptive survey study, four elements of performance evaluation of advanced practice nurses (APNs) currently in clinical practice were examined: evaluation frequency, evaluation responsibility, evaluation parameters, and monitored patient outcomes. Questionnaires were mailed to 2,093 APNs living in Florida and licensed by the Florida State Board of Nursing. Eight hundred twenty-two usable surveys were […]
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Developing an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Service in Emergency Care: Attitudes of Nurses and Doctors
Aim: This paper reports a study to determine the attitudes of nurses, doctors and general medical practitioners towards the development of an advanced nurse practitioner service within an emergency department. Background: The role of advanced nurse practitioner in emergency care has emerged in a number of countries, and has brought with it confusion about titles, […]
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