The purposes of this research were to identify diagnosis and intervention performance accuracy, variables that influence this performance accuracy, and barriers that impede performance accuracy of adult nurse practitioners (ANP) and family nurse practitioners (FNP) for domestic violence. Two measures were developed: the Nurse Practitioner Survey (NPS) and the Nurse Practitioner Performance Tool...

Nurse practitioners are the principal group of advanced-practice nurses delivering primary care in the United States. We reviewed the current and projected nurse practitioner workforce, and we summarize the available evidence of their contributions to improving primary care and reducing more costly health resource use. We recommend that nurse practice acts--the state laws governing how nurses m...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experience distinct health disparities and are one of the largest underserved populations in any nursing setting. Transgender health has been the subject of relatively little health research, particularly within the nursing community. Studies investigating nursing’s knowledge and attitudes towards LGBT persons suggest a gap that can affect t...

The term consultancy is used in many contexts. It has been applied to advanced nursing practice roles such as clinical nurse specialist, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse practitioner and other occupations. This causes confusion in the healthcare setting as the word is often used interchangeably between roles and has traditionally been used in a medical context. In addition, the development of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to design a means to educate the registered nurse or nurse practitioner on epidemiology, signs and symptoms, risk factors, screening tools, management, and complications that can occur with delayed diagnosis of postpartum depression. A decision tree was also developed to help the registered nurse or nurse practitioner understand the best clinical practice g...

Vignettes have often been used to evaluate students or collect data in nursing research. The format is familiar to most nursing students as well as nurses and nurse researchers. This article presents the development and testing of the Nurse Practitioner Performance Tool (NPPT) which used vignettes as an approach to nurse practitioner performance evaluation. In this example, vignettes were used ...

A study exploring the acceptability of a nurse practitioner to a random sample of 126 patients is reported. Sixty per cent of patients either approved of the concept and expressed willingness to consult the nurse or held no strong views. Fifty three per cent of the 61 patients who had seen her already were prepared to see her again. Fifty four per cent of patients had difficulty in differentiat...

Copyright © 2006 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society J WOCN ■ May/June 2006 281 Barbara Pieper, PhD, RN, FAAN, CWOCN, CS, Professor/ Nurse Practitioner, College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. Mary Sieggreen, MSN, APRN, BC, CVN, Nurse Practitioner, Vascular, Harper University Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Barbara Freeland, MSN, APRN, BC, CDE, Clinical Nurse Speciali...

Scaffolding is a common strategy in undergraduate nursing education; however, scaffolding education for nurse practitioner students largely unexplored. Adult-Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) need activities to maximize improvement and opportunities repeated practice feedback on core skills competencies. An on-campus residency experience was developed scaffold skill development ...