title: An emerging role for nurse practitioners--preoperative assessment.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cascade Vascular Associates, Tacoma, Wash, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Barnett
mesh_terms: 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