The evolving role of advanced practice nurses in surgery

AORN Journal,  May, 1998  by Denise M. Hodson

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(12.) B Martin, J Coniglio, "The acute care nurse practitioner in collaborative practice," AACN Clinical Issues 7 (May 1996) 309-314.

(13.) R L Bissinger et al, "A cost effectiveness analysis of neonatal nurse practitioners," Nursing Economics 15 (March/April 1997) 92-99; Breuninger, "CNS and NP role merger?" 12-13; Buppert, "Justifying nurse practitioner existence: Hard facts to hard figures," 43-48; K M Parrinello, "Advanced practice nursing: An administrative perspective," Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 7 (March 1995) 9-16; L E Shay et al, "Guidelines for developing a nurse practitioner practice," Nurse Practitioner 21 (January 1996) 72-81.

(14.) Shay et al, "Guidelines for developing a nurse practitioner practice," 72-81.

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(18.) Ibid.

(19.) C L Romig, "Surgical technologists on the move," AORN Journal 65 (February 1997) 419-421.

(20.) Ibid.

(21.) L L Forsythe, "RN first assistants increase access to quality surgical care in a rural setting," AORN Journal 65 (January 1997) 45-46; M Hravnak, M Baldisseri, "Credentialing and privileging: Insight into the process for acute-care nurse practitioners," AACN Clinical Issues 8 (February 1997) 108-115; S C Hylka, J C Beschle, "Nurse practitioners, cost savings, and improved patient care in the department of surgery," Nursing Economics 13 (November/December 1995) 349-354; Keane, Richmond, "Tertiary nurse practitioners," 281-284; B J Safriet, "Health care dollars and regulatory sense: The role of advanced practice nursing," Yale Journal on Regulation 9 (Summer 1992) 417-488; J M Sprague-McRae, "The advanced practice nurse and physician relationship: Considerations for practice," Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly 2 (Summer 1996) 33-40.

(22.) L C Ford, "A deviant comes of age," Heart and Lung 26 (March/ April 1997) 87-91.

(23.) A Keane, T Richmond, L Kaiser, "Critical care nurse practitioners: Evolution of the advanced practice nursing role," American Journal of Critical Care 3 (May 1994) 232-237.

(24.) Ford, "A deviant comes of age," 87-91.

(25.) Anderson, "Managed care: Increased opportunities for acute-care nurse practitioners," 101-107.

(26.) Ibid.

(27.) American Nurses Association, Scope and Standards of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing; Sprague-McRae, "The advanced practice nurse and physician relationship: Considerations for practice," 33-40.

(28.) American Nurses Association, Scope and Standards of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing.

(29.) Ibid.

(30.) A B Hamric, J A Spross, C M Hanson, Advanced Nursing Practice, An Integrative Approach (Philadelphia: W B Saunders Co, 1996) 47.