BACKGROUND Advanced practice providers (APPs), including nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are cost-effective substitutes for physicians, with similar outcomes in primary care and surgery. However, little is understood about APP roles in inpatient medicine. OBJECTIVE Describe APPs role in inpatient medicine. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional cohort study. SETTING...

The role of the pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in the comprehensive management of pediatric oncology patients in the inpatient setting was examined at a large tertiary teaching hospital. This article shows role responsibilities including new diagnosis teaching, procedures, routine chemotherapy, patients' comprehensive medical management, coordination of nursing care across settings, phone t...

Sue Rimes, RN, BSN, is a clinical nurse liaison in the Gynecologic Oncology Department, Jacalyn Gano, RN, MSW, OCN, is the manager of clinical protocol administration in the Gynecologic Oncology Department, and Karin Hahn, MD, is an assistant professor in Breast Medical Oncology and the Department of Epidemiology, all at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston; Mildred Ra...

The conduct of nurse managers, and health service managers more widely, has been subject to scrutiny critique because high-profile organisational failures in healthcare. This raises concerns about the practice nursing management use codes professional managerial conduct. Some responses such seem assume that will ensure or at least increase likelihood ethical be practised. Codes are general prin...

The article identifies the explosion of clinical data that are available and how difficult it is for clinicians to find answers to clinical questions. Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are increasingly used to assist clinicians in this process; however, resistance to the implementation of technology-assisted care is not uncommon. The article reviews the diffusion of innovation research and p...

Nursing service managers need certain essential managerial attributes in taking the lead in effective management of the nowadays health care organisations in South Africa. Major changes in restructuring and human resources planning are taking place through transformation of health services and specific managerial attributes are needed in this scenario. Without nursing service managers with the ...

Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) is by their title clinicians in focus, and the literature emphasises this. However the CNS has many roles, the clinical, educator and researcher roles are frequently articulated but the CNS operates in many other roles also. These include the less articulated roles such as leadership, manager, consultant and change agent/innovator. These roles require functions ...

CONTEXT Prior research has found that safety organizing behaviors of registered nurses (RNs) positively impact patient safety. However, little research exists on the joint benefits of safety organizing and other contextual factors that help foster safety. OBJECTIVES Although we know that organizational practices often have more powerful effects when combined with other mutually reinforcing pr...