Advanced practice nursing in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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.
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