title: Hospital-based nurse practitioner roles and interprofessional practice: a scoping review.
abstract: This scoping review provides current global understanding of the rapidly evolving nurse practitioner role within hospital settings, and considers the level of understanding of its enactment within interprofessional teamwork. Arksey and O'Malley's framework was used to explore recent primary research, reviews, and gray literature in two ways. First, hospital-based nurse practitioner literature was mapped to country of origin, and thematically summarized. Second, clearly developed and consistently defined key interprofessional concepts were identified in the interprofessional literature then conceptually mapped to the nurse practitioner studies by their operationalization. The nurse practitioner review located 103 abstracts. Twenty-nine, originating from four countries, met the inclusion criteria. The interprofessional concept review identified a total of 137 relevant abstracts, however, only ten met the inclusion criteria. Understanding the nurse practitioner role within hospital teams remains limited due to a small number of countries producing evidence, the lack of nurse practitioner role title standardization hindering consistent knowledgebase development, and limited application and inconsistent operationalization of concepts within nurse practitioner research. Research focused on role enactment is needed to understand the uniqueness of the hospital-based nurse practitioner role.
authors: Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, Western University, London, Ontario; London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario.
authors: Christina
authors: C
authors: Hurlock-Chorostecki
authors: Cheryl
authors: C
authors: Forchuk
authors: Carole
authors: C
authors: Orchard
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: van Soeren
authors: Scott
authors: S
authors: Reeves
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care
keywords: hospital; interprofessional; nurse practitioner; scoping review; teamwork