Acute Care: The Crucial Role of Nurse Practitioners

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The Role Of a Nurse Practitioner In Acute Care
Seynor Massalee Kennedy
South University






















The Role Of a Nurse Practitioner In Acute Care
There are several recognized advanced practice nursing roles in many countries with requirements of a graduate education with a specified focus. These roles includes: Nurse Practitioner (NP), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Certified Nurse-Midwife (Cnm), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA). A NP main focus is direct patient care which comprises of delivering to patients and their families medical and nursing care. However, the introduction of a NP to health care team and resulted into both negative and positive responds (Kilpatrick, Lavoie-Tremblay, Lamothe, Ritchie, …show more content…

The study was designed as an integrative review of an informative, single case study with embedded unit of data analysis and a method of important documentations and semi-structured examination with participants (n=16) from three primary health care units in British Columbia was incorporated into the data source. Inclusion criteria included PHC units where the NP had worked for at least six months, English speaking participants that worked directly or indirectly with the NP and have worked on the unit for at least six months before the NP role …show more content…

Additionally, documents were reviewed to corroborate data from the interviews. All interviews occurred as a private, face-to-face encounter in a location that had been mutually agreed upon except one which was conducted as a telephone interview. The research questions that were asked focused on how identifying the intentions of the NP’s role and involvement and acceptance of team members (Physicians, managers, other staff and the NP) influence the role implementation process. In Addition, what was the change in PHC setting after the NP enacting the role domains of clinical practice, collaboration, research, leadership, and change agent (Sangster-Gormley et al., 2013)?
The results indicated that there are barriers to overcome when unfamiliar roles are introduced to a unit. In order to overcome these barriers, members of the team should be informed of the need and the role of the nurse practitioner during the hiring process. Involvement of the community health care providers in the implementation of the new role of a nurse practitioner can developed acceptance with gaining knowledge of the new role (Sangster-Gormley et al.,

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