An emerging role for nurse practitioners--preoperative assessment.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS (NPs) are expanding their role beyond primary care, and preoperative assessment is one area in which existing medical and nursing models of care could be merged to create a specialty role for NPs. THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS health-related literature regarding the impact of NPs in the preoperative assessment setting and explores the potential for this emerging role as an alternative to existing preoperative assessment models.
Barnett
Jennifer S
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Cascade Vascular Associates, Tacoma, Wash, USA.
D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000451:nursing*; D014481:United States