As the only association representing Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) across all specialties, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists calls for careful implementation of the Consensus Model (the Model) in order to preserve patient and health care system access to CNS services, particularly given the significant influence this role has on cost and quality of health care outcomes....

BACKGROUND The process and content of nurse practitioner educational preparation has received scant research attention, despite increasing interest in and investigations into nurse practitioner services in Australia and internationally. AIMS The aim of this paper is to report a study investigating the educational process and content required for nurse practitioner preparation. METHODS A tri...

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) represent a crucial resource to meeting growing health care needs. Such resources must be used to the full extent and in the most effective way possible. Through the development of the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education (LACE), nursing is assuming a leadership role within the health care system a...

The tax structure in Niger depends heavily on uranium mining and the rest of the formal sector. The slump in uranium prices has reduced tax revenues to 9% of GNP, which is not enough to finance an adequate level of public services. In this paper, tax reforms are considered which will raise more revenue while respecting criteria of equity, efficiency, and growth. The reforms mostly involve exten...

This paper investigates the relationship between permanent and transitory components of U.S. recessions in an empirical model allowing for business cycle asymmetry. Using a common stochastic trend representation for real GNP and consumption, we divide real GNP into permanent and transitory components, the dynamics of which are different in booms vs. recessions. We find evidence of substantial a...

Increasing economic integration has been one of the major forces driving the world economy's impressive growth over the last fortyfive years. Today, however, more than at any time since World War 11, the future of the world trading system is in doubt. Ironically, just as the Soviet Union, Eastern ~ u r o ~ e , and many developing countries rush to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...

An extensive search using full-text CINAHL and key words “nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (36 hits); “primary care nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (0 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “hospitalist” (6 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “intensivist” (1 hit) was conducted by Board staff. Google scholar, Medline and ancestry were also used to locate additional references. The literature repo...

As a nurse practitioner (NP) educator, my day-to-day role is primarily teaching or administrative tasks in family NP program. Additionally, I actively practice, serve on various nursing-related committees, and attempt to disseminate timely information audiences related nursing, education, practice. With this experience, gain insight the peaks valleys of each these areas. am able collaborate wit...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality of the emergency nurse practitioner service provided to people presenting to a rural urgent care centre with minor injuries. The three objectives that were focused were an evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the emergency nurse practitioner service, an assessment of patients' satisfaction with the emergency nurse practitioner service and a d...

AIM To draw on empirical evidence to illustrate the core role of nurse practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. BACKGROUND Enacted legislation provides for mutual recognition of qualifications, including nursing, between New Zealand and Australia. As the nurse practitioner role is relatively new in both countries, there is no consistency in role expectation and hence mutual recognition has...