title: Advanced practice nursing in the neonatal intensive care unit.
abstract: The advanced practice roles of clinical nurse specialist and neonatal nurse practitioner have enjoyed challenge and success in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This article provides a historic perspective and role descriptions of advanced practice roles in the NICU, describes a theoretical framework for development of the graduate neonatal nurse practitioner, and uses this framework to describe the neonatal advanced practice nurse of the future.
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Clancy
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maguire
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007587:Job Description; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration*