Build consensus and develop collaborative practice guidelines.
With differing treatment guidelines available from many sources, collaborating advanced practice nurses and physicians at this facility recognized the need for one clear, acceptable set. Survey results show that clinicians incorporate all or most of the guidelines into practice (91%).
Weinstein
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Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, USA.
McCormack
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Brown
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Rosenthal
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D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic