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Nurse practitioner transition experience into independent practice after a student nurse practitioner internship
… study was to explore and describe a new Nurse Practitioners (NPs)’ transition into their NP role after participating in a student NP internship, to obtain a better understanding of the transition time a new NP needs. The setting of the study was at a large academic research medical center …
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Rural Acceptance of the Nurse Practitioner
… Collaboration between physician and family nurse practitioner is an option for meeting the need for delivery of primary healthcare in the rural community. A descriptive design was used to describe the acceptance of the nurse practitioner by patients living in rural southcentral Kentucky who …
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Nurse Practitioner Adoption of Clinical Innovations
<p>Adoption of clinical innovations by Nurse Practitioners (NP) is a complex phenomenon, rooted in personal values and influenced by challenges within health care environments. When clinical innovations are adopted or rejected by NPs, this decision has meaning for patients, NPs, health care …
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Building A Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship
… forces. With the increasing number of graduating nurse practitioners, now is a crucial time to validate an educational model to ensure these clinicians are providing quality care in the primary care setting. This paper explores the current educational model of nurse practitioners and the …
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Offering Preceptor Incentives In Nurse Practitioner Education
… and retention of clinical preceptors for Nurse Practitioner (NP) students is a challenge for coordinators of NP academic programs. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore what incentives and benefits are offered to clinical preceptors of NP students in accredited NP academic …
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
This dissertation explores interactions between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and patients during both inpatient and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and interviews, I focus on the ways that both patients and providers construct …
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Role Expectations of the In-patient Nurse Practitioner
Although many nurses are becoming nurse practitioners, there are numerous people who are confused and unaware of the role functions of the nurse practitioner including other nurses. The problem under investigation was to determine the extent to which registered nurses in a staff position accepted …
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Nurse Practitioner Role Enactment in Community Palliative Care
… To respond to issues of access and quality, nurse practitioners (NPs) have been increasingly added to diverse practice settings across the globe and research showing how they are contributing to diverse care settings. As a strategy to improve community palliative care locally, NPs have been …
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Development of a Nurse Practitioner First Assistant Orientation Program
… backlog hours for the operating room. Allowing nurse practitioners (NP) to function in an expanded role in the perioperative environment requires additional training beyond the generic NP program. With this additional training, the NP can function as a first assistant, providing delegated …
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Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner as a Subspecialty: A Case Study
<p>Purpose: The overall purpose of this study was to describe the ONP role by exploring how and why NPs are utilized in orthopedic health care settings. Two problems associated with the evolving ONP role were addressed: the concomitant decrease in the supply of and increased demand for orthopedic …
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Determining Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Utilizing A Delphi Approach
… education (CBE) has been recommended for nurse practitioner (NP) education. To implement CBE, existing NP core competencies need to be reduced in number and refined.</p> <p>Purpose: This study refined and reduced redundancy in the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties …
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PROCESSES OF ROLE CONSTRUCTION AND REVISION: THE NURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENT.
PROCESSES OF ROLE CONSTRUCTION AND REVISION: THE NURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENT.
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Nurse Practitioner Reimbursement Parity: An Advocacy Strategy For Washington State
<p>Nurse practitioners (NP) play a vital role in the United States health care system. Nurse practitioners belong to a category of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN). APRNs in Washington State, licensed as Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNP), are able to practice without the …
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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power
… examine the sociolinguistic dimensions of female nurse practitioner interactions with female patients. The purpose was to provide a contextual account of the discursive practices used by the nurse practitioners during routine office visits with female patients. Direction for this research was …
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Integration of evidence-based practice by acute care nurse practitioner
… group of providers, namely the Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNPs). The ACNPs use ofEBP was studied using a qualitative phenomenological approach guided by the philosophical tenets of Merleau-Ponty' s Phenomenology of Perception (1962). Ten practicing ACNPs from 2 large teaching and 1 …
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Patient Satisfaction with Nurse Practitioner Service in a Rural Setting
… study was to measure patient satisfaction with nurse practitioner (NP) service in a rural setting. Patient satisfaction is one method that can be used to determine the quality of service provided to patients. Patient expectations, demographic characteristics, patient characteristics, and the …
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Impact of Nurse Practitioner Practice Regulation on Access to Healthcare Services
Nurse practitioner (NP) practice regulations vary from state to state across the United States. Despite strong evidence supporting the quality of care and satisfaction with care provided by NPs, restrictive regulations continue to limit the practice of NPs in many states. Given current and growing …
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Problem Definition and Hypothesis Generation by Recent Family Nurse Practitioner Graduates
… hypothesis-generation accuracy in recent family nurse practitioner (FNP) graduates. The hypotheticodeductive-reasoning model served as the theoretical framework for the study. An alternating-treatment single-subject experimental design was used to examine the effects of problem definition on 8 …
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Validation Of A Toolkit On Innovative Business Models For Nurse Practitioner Practice
… according to the International Council of Nurses, “only 0.5%-1% of working nurses are nurse entrepreneurs” (ICN, 2004, pg. 9). This is primarily due to a lack of resources that support entrepreneurial inquiry.</p> <p>Objective: To validate a toolkit on innovative business models for NP …
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An Examination of the Night Burn Clinic Transition to Nurse Practitioner Coverage
… length was shorter for patients seen by nurse practitioners. There was no difference in opiate prescribing during the visit or at discharge. There was a dramatic increase in revenue during the first year.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Burn care is dynamic and evolving. More timely …
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