title: Nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency departments: a national survey.
abstract: Use of nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency (A&E) departments is rapidly increasing: currently they are used in 30% of such departments and this is expected to rise to 63% by the end of 1995. Most are trained by a formal programme in the employing hospital but 12% claim to have no formal training. The nurse practitioner could prescribe a limited range of drugs in 82% of major departments with 'official' nurse practitioners, but radiograph requesting was permitted in only 57% of such departments: of those not able to request radiographs, 95% blamed radiographers for preventing this.
authors.affiliation: Accident and Emergency Department, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Meek
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ruffles
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ohiorenoya
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014194:Traumatology; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce