Scope of practice review: providers for triage and assessment of spine-related disorders by Boakye O, Birney A, Suter E, Phillips LA, Suen VYM

“…Results: Family physicians and nurse practitioners have the most comprehensive scopes and can complete all restricted activities for spine assessment and triage, while the scope of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses are progressively narrower. …”
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Persistent barriers to achieving quality neonatal care in low-resource settings: perspectives from a unique panel of frontline neonatal health experts by Eshkeerat Kaur, Michelle Heys, Caroline Crehan, Felicity Fitzgerald, Msandeni Chiume, Ellen Chirwa, Emma Wilson, Mari Evans

“… # Results Twenty-two experts were invited to participate, of whom 16 responded and 13 agreed to take part (five neonatologists, six paediatricians and two advanced neonatal nurse practitioners). Participants had a mean of 13 (±7 SD) years working in LRS. …”
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Analysis of surgical manpower for the past 20 years in Taiwan by Guan-Yeu Diau, De-Chian Chan, Hsin-I Ma, Dah-Shyong Yu

“…For example, they might be able to guide a reasonable work shift hour limit, maximal care surgical patients' number, adequate nurse practitioners, setup legal surgical assistants in the operation room, well-training sufficient surgical residents program, and balance the number for the surgical subspecialty.…”
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Presentation and management of insect bites in out-of-hours primary care: a descriptive study by Jane Wilcock, Samuel John Finnikin, Peter Jonathan Edwards

“…General practitioners were less likely to prescribe antibiotics than advanced nurse practitioners (60.5% vs 71.1%, p<0.001) and there was a decreasing trend in antibiotic prescribing as patient deprivation increased. …”
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Patient and Provider Perspectives on Acceptability, Access, and Adherence to 17-Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate for Preterm Birth Prevention by Stephanie M. Garcia, Katherine S. Kellom, Rupsa C. Boelig, Xi Wang, Meredith Matone

“…Ten providers (MDs, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses) were also interviewed. …”
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Comparison of Bone Marrow Biopsy Specimens Obtained Using a Motorized Device and Manual Biopsy Systems by Catherine A Glennon, Janet M Woodroof, Suman Kambhampati, Alexis C Battershell, Serena R O'Connor, Kiley B Roberts

“…Results: Operators from two centers included physicians and nurse practitioners. The manual system was superior to the powered drill with respect to the amount of crush artifact (0.15 cm ± 0.01 vs. 0.24 cm ± 0.04, P = 0.01 [t-test]). …”
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Postherpetic neuralgia: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and pain management pharmacology by Mallick-Searle T, Snodgrass B, Brant JM

“…Health-care professionals play a key role in helping to ameliorate the pain caused by postherpetic neuralgia through early recognition and diligent assessment of the problem; recommending evidence-based treatments; and monitoring treatment adherence, adverse events, responses, and expectations. Nurse practitioners are especially crucial in establishing communication with patients and encouraging the initiation of appropriate pain-relieving treatments. …”
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What are priorities for deprescribing for elderly patients? Capturing the voice of practitioners: a modified delphi process. by Barbara Farrell, Corey Tsang, Lalitha Raman-Wilms, Hannah Irving, James Conklin, Kevin Pottie

“…Sixty-five Canadian geriatrics experts (36 pharmacists, 19 physicians and 10 nurse practitioners) participated in the survey. Twenty-nine drugs/drug classes were included in the first survey with 14 reaching the required (≥ 70%) level of consensus, and 2 new drug classes added from qualitative comments. …”
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Healthcare practitioners' views of social media as an educational resource. by Adam G Pizzuti, Karan H Patel, Erin K McCreary, Emily Heil, Christopher M Bland, Eric Chinaeke, Bryan L Love, P Brandon Bookstaver

“…An electronic survey was distributed to healthcare administrators, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physicians, and physician assistants f hospital systems and affiliated health science schools in Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. …”
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The value of the pre-hospital learning environment as part of the emergency nursing programme by Sonett van Wyk, Tanya Heyns, Isabel Coetzee

“…These students are placed in the hospital environment (emergency department and critical care unit) and pre-hospital environment (road ambulance services) to ensure they gain the necessary clinical exposure in order to learn the relevant and necessary skills and knowledge which in turn will help them become safe and independent emergency nurse practitioners. Controversy about the value of placing emergency nursing students in the pre-hospital environment has raised questions from specifically the private healthcare sector. …”
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Management of respiratory tract infections in children by Paul SP, Wilkinson R, Routley C

“…With the expanding role of nurses in ambulatory settings, many children are now being seen by health professionals other than doctors, (eg, advanced nurse practitioners), some of whom are trained in pediatrics while others have limited knowledge of nursing sick children. …”
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Collaboration with pharmacy services in a family practice for the medically underserved by Campbell K, Taylor JR, Enfinger F

“…A pharmacy residency director, an ambulatory care pharmacy resident and three PharmD candidate student pharmacists work directly with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and social workers to form an interdisciplinary health care team. …”
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School nurses' experiences of delivering the UK HPV vaccination programme in its first year by Bedford Helen, Hunt Kate, Hilton Shona, Petticrew Mark

“…School nurses were recruited via GP practices, the internet and posters targeted at school nurse practitioners.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>All the school nurses spoke of readying themselves for a deluge of phone calls from concerned parents, but found that in fact few parents telephoned to ask for more information or express their concerns about the HPV vaccine. …”
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Current state of information technology use in a US primary care practice-based research network by James Andrews, Kevin Pearce, Carey Sydney, Carol Ireson, Margaret Love

“…Practitioners included family practitioners, general practitioners, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Methods A cross-sectional study using two survey instruments: one for office managers and one for practitioners. …”
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PrEP Awareness and Attitudes in a National Survey of Primary Care Clinicians in the United States, 2009-2015. by Dawn K Smith, Maria C B Mendoza, Jo Ellen Stryker, Charles E Rose

“…METHODS:Physicians and nurse practitioners were surveyed in 2009 (n = 1500), 2010 (n = 1504), 2012 (n = 1503), 2013 (n = 1507), 2014 (n = 1508) and 2015 (n = 1501) to assess their awareness of PrEP, willingness to prescribe PrEP, and whether they support use of public funds to pay for PrEP. …”
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Developing Educational Animations on HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Women: Qualitative Study by Anna Marie Young, Timothee Fruhauf, Obianuju Okonkwo, Erin Gingher, Jenell Coleman

“…Four focus groups with community members from Baltimore, Maryland and four with women’s health providers (eg, obstetrician/gynecologists, midwives, nurse practitioners, and peer counselors) at an academic center were conducted to discuss the storyboards. …”
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Rural clinician scarcity and job preferences of doctors and nurses in India: a discrete choice experiment. by Krishna D Rao, Mandy Ryan, Zubin Shroff, Marko Vujicic, Sudha Ramani, Peter Berman

“…Non-physician clinicians like nurse-practitioners offer an affordable alternative for delivering rural health care.…”
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Validation of a multifactorial risk factor model used for predicting future caries risk with nevada adolescents by Mobley Connie, Howard Katherine M, Dounis Georgia, Ditmyer Marcia M, Cappelli David

“…</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Overall, the Risk Factor Model provided a relatively constant, valid measure of caries that could be used in conjunction with a comprehensive risk assessment in population-based screenings by school nurses/nurse practitioners, health educators, and physicians to guide them in assessing potential future caries risk for use in prevention and referral practices.…”
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From Promoting Healthy Sexual Functioning to Managing Biomedical Sexual Dysfunction: Health Professional Views of Youth Sexual Health by Lucia F. O'Sullivan PhD, Jo Ann Majerovich MD, Judith Wuest RN, PhD

“…Nineteen HCPs: Family physicians, nurse practitioners, and public health nurses working primarily with youth in universities, schools, or sexual health clinics were recruited to draw on their expert knowledge and experience. …”
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Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services: Identifying under-Serviced Neighbourhoods in Canadian Urban Areas. by Tayyab Ikram Shah, Scott Bell, Kathi Wilson

“…Information about primary health care providers (this definition does not include mobile services such as health buses or nurse practitioners or less distributed services such as emergency rooms) used in this research was gathered from publicly available and routinely updated sources (i.e. provincial colleges of physicians and surgeons). …”
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