Overall, however, any Emergency NP is capable of handling extremely stressful situations and of ensuring that he or she is ready for the next difficult condition that appears. Southern Universities Offering Nursing Education There are many universities all over the country that offer nursing education. In the south, many of these universities are concentrated in Alabama and Florida. Auburn University in Alabama has a school of nursing that was founded in

Nursing Nurse Practitioner Role: Current and Future Trends If one is looking for a bare-bones description of today's nurse practitioner, a description presented in quite simple terms, it is convenient to turn to The International Council of Nurses; this organization defines the "nurse practitioner / advanced practice nurse" as an RN who has acquired an "expert knowledge base," who has a Master's degree, and whose expanded practice role is shaped "by the

Nursing: Nurse Practitioner The advanced practice nurse is a graduate with a master's or doctorate degree in nursing, certified to guide others in using the nursing process to maximize the community's health outcomes (Smith & Rose, 2011). These nurses are prepared to pursue either direct practice roles, where they interact directly with families and patients to improve their well-being through disease management, or indirect practice roles, where they take a leadership

Nurse Licensure Do you believe that nurse licensure (and scope of practice) should be controlled at the state or federal level? The NLC (Nurse Licensure Compact) is a mutual acknowledgement licensure model. Many states have thought of authorizing it. Nonetheless, there were various factors that either terminated the bill while it was being processed or had it cancelled after adjournment. National licensure involves setting of criteria for universal licensing nationally, and administering

NP "role" definition A nurse practitioner is any independent certified nursing care provider who offers primary, specialty, or both primary and specialty, nursing services in long-term, ambulatory and acute care settings. NPs are engaged in the chronic or acute episodic ailment assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management. They are specialists in the areas of illness prevention and health promotion, and perform the tasks of ordering, performing, overseeing and interpreting lab and diagnostic

Nurse Practitioner Portfolio: A Review of Aspects Related to Nurse Practitioner (NP) Scope of Practice (SOP) Negotiation Strategy Numerous researches deal with patient outcomes or care quality offered by nurse practitioners, with current literature indicating that nurse practitioners’ care quality standards are nearly on an equal footing with that offered by doctors. A primary care NP meta-analysis revealed that researches which controlled for patient risks non-randomly found pathological ailment resolution and patient