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The Psychiatric-Primary Care Nurse Practitioner: A Futuristic Model for Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
A new paradigm for delivering comprehensive mental and general health services has been born out of the necessity to integrate all aspects of health care. Because of issues of cost-effectiveness and capitation, fragmentation of services is no longer viable. Graduate programs in nursing will need to: (1) effectively prepare its practitioners to manage the complexity […]
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Nephrology APNs: Who are We and what do We do? Survey Results October 1999
In an attempt to identify characteristics of the nephrology APN, attendees at the January 1999 Advanced Practice/Management Seminar in Savannah, Georgia were surveyed. The results discussed focus on the 46 attendees who identified themselves as APNs. They represented 25 states and were predominately master’s-prepared nurse practitioners with both CNN and advanced practice certification. Most were […]
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The Development of Leadership Outcome-Indicators Evaluating the Contribution of Clinical Specialists and Advanced Practitioners to Health Care: A Secondary Analysis
Aims: To report a secondary analysis of data collected from the case study phase of a national study of advanced practitioners and to develop leadership outcome-indicators appropriate for advanced practitioners. Background: In many countries, advanced practitioners in nursing and midwifery have responsibility as leaders for health care development, but without having leadership outcome measures available […]
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The Identification of Clinical and Professional Leadership Activities of Advanced Practitioners: Findings from the Specialist Clinical and Advanced Practitioner Evaluation Study in Ireland
Aim: To report a case study that identifies how leadership is enacted by advanced practitioners in nursing and midwifery and differentiates between clinical and professional leadership in advanced practice. Background: A national evaluation of advanced practitioners in nursing and midwifery was commissioned to inform policy makers’ decision-making about future developments in Ireland. Leadership is a […]
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How to Add a New Midlevel Provider to your Practice
The ever-changing environment of healthcare leads many practices to consider how they will control the cost of overhead, give access to their patients, and maintain or increase practice income. The solution may be to add a midlevel provider (MLP)–a Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP)–to the staff. Both of these specialties train to see […]
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Examining Attitudes of Specialist Physicians regarding Physician Assistant Referrals
Referral of a patient from a primary care provider to a referral specialist physician for consultation is an important link in the continuum of patient care. Although the relationship between the physician assistant (PA) and supervising physician has been studied extensively, the effectiveness of the relationship between the primary care PA and the referral specialist […]
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Incorporation of the Competencies for the Physician Assistant Profession into Physician Assistant Education
The Competencies for the Physician Assistant Profession (Competencies) were developed and disseminated in 2006 by the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), and the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). They are based on the competencies […]
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Job Satisfaction of Advanced Practice Nurses in the Veterans Health Administration
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the level of job satisfaction and barriers to practice for advanced practice nurses (APNs) employed by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Data sources: The Misener Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction Survey (MNPJSS) and an investigator-developed questionnaire were completed by a self-selected, convenience sample of 1,983 APNs who […]
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