BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Night teams of hospital providers have become more common in the wake of resident physician duty hour changes. We sought to examine relationships between nighttime communication and parents' inpatient experience. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of parents (n = 471) of pediatric inpatients (0-17 years) from May 2013 to October 2014. Parents rated their ...

Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are health professionals qualified and licensed to perform a wide variety of medical activities, including the direct provision of patient care.1 Although they are trained in different types of schools and licensed by different entities, in North Carolina PAs and NPs carry out very similar duties and have nearly identical authority to pra...

Background: Socioeconomic, technological, and political developments have led to significant changes in the nursing profession in Israel. One major shift is the expansion of nurse authority. Aims: To explore the attitudes of physicians and nurses in Israel towards the expansion of nurses' authority to perform Peripheral Intra Venous cannulation. In addition, the study evaluated the influence of...

Abstract Teamwork is one of the most important aspects in medicine today. It known that operating room place where communication needed between doctors and other medical staff. The purpose this study was to analyse view nurses towards collaboration physician nurse an anaesthesiology department depending on education work experience. conducted three Lithuanian hospitals. questionnaires “Jefferso...

BACKGROUND Physician-nurse task shifting in primary care appeals greatly to health policymakers. It promises to address workforce shortages and demands of high-quality, affordable care in the healthcare systems of many countries. This systematic review was conducted to assess the evidence about physician-nurse task shifting in primary care in relation to the course of disease and nurses' roles....

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine whether the use of a nurse-driven protocol in the haemodialysis setting is as safe and effective as traditional physician-driven approaches to anaemia management. BACKGROUND The role of haemodialysis nurses in renal anaemia management has evolved through the implementation of nurse-driven protocols, addressing the trend of exceeding haemoglobin targets and ris...

CONTEXT California's Reproductive Health Privacy Act, which became law in January 2003, clarified that advanced practice clinicians could legally provide medical abortion. Little is known about the characteristics associated with nonphysician clinicians' interest in receiving medical abortion training or their perceptions of barriers to medical abortion provision. METHODS In early 2003, a tot...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain if the use of a structured pain assessment tool and nurse initiated oral analgesia protocols improve uptake and time to analgesia for children presenting to the emergency department with minor or moderate musculoskeletal injuries. METHODS Three groups of children with peripheral limb injuries were examined to identify the rates of analgesia provision and time from atte...

Paul R. Katz, MD, CMD, of Florida State University College Medicine, and colleagues conducted a scoping review peer-reviewed studies examining the impact care provided by nurse practitioners (NPs) physician assistants (PAs) in nursing homes to see if they “have accounted for both collaborative relationship between themselves physicians as well practice size type.” The researchers looked at whet...