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...

In many European countries during the last decade, the clinical role of the nurse teacher has changed from a clinical skilled practitioner to a liaison person working between educational and health care provider organisations. This study explored pre-registration nursing students' perceptions of cooperation with nurse teachers during their clinical placements in nine Western European countries....

This article describes in practical terms the approach to selection and maintenance of clinical experience sites for nurse-midwifey educational programs. The responsibilities of clinical instructors, University programs, and student nurse-midwives in clinical settings are examined. Guidelines are offered to assist in providing a sound educational environment for the learning of the role of the ...

BackgroundPatients diagnosed with sarcoma experience complex treatment pathways and unmet needs. The Sarcoma Clinical Nurse Consultant position was recently established in Western Australia to improve the quality of patient care. As this role is new nationally, research required understand duties, benefits, gaps position.AimTo explore patients’, carers’, health professionals’ perspectives Austr...

BACKGROUND The nurse practitioner is a growing clinical role in Australia and internationally, with an expanded scope of practice including prescribing, referring and diagnosing. However, key gaps exist in nurse practitioner education regarding governance of specialty clinical learning and teaching. Specifically, there is no internationally accepted framework against which to measure the qualit...

The overall aim of the study was to develop a composite and comparative view of what factors enhance the learning experiences of student nurses whilst they are in clinical practice. The study involved students undertaking general nurse training programmes in nine Western European countries. The study focused on: (1) student nurse experiences of clinical learning environments, (2) the supervisio...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 27, No. 2, APRIL 2007 53 Angela Smith Collins has more than 30 years of experience in nursing, the past 13 years as an advanced practice nurse. She is an associate professor of nursing at the Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa, Ala, where she teaches pharmacology, critical care nursing, and perioperative nursing. She holds APN certification as a medical-surgical cli...