title: The perinatal nurse practitioner: an innovative model of advanced practice.
abstract: When a major urban hospital received notice it would no longer have resident physicians to serve its perinatal population, nurses and physicians joined forces with a private university to develop a curriculum for advanced level caregivers. This willingness to rise to a challenge helped to create the Perinatal Nurse Practitioner Program and has paved the way for other needed inpatient nurse practitioner roles.
mesh_terms: D003120:Colorado; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team; D018743:Perinatal Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011787:Quality of Health Care