Lowe Grainne, Tori Kathleen, Jennings Natasha, Schiftan Dan, Driscoll Andrea
School of Nursing & Midwifery, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Deakin University, Burwood, Vic., Australia.
University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS, Australia.
Nurs Open. 2021 Mar;8(2):966-974. doi: 10.1002/nop2.705. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
The aim was to determine how nurse practitioner (NP) roles are translated into clinical practice across Victoria, Australia. This paper reports details about NP work patterns and scopes of practice across multiple clinical settings and geographic locations.
A quantitative survey design was used. A data abstraction tool, based on previous work, was adapted for this study.
All NPs in one state of Australia were eligible to participate in the study and invited to complete an online survey about their NP practice. A previously developed data collection tool, capturing practice patterns of NPs, was adapted for online use in REDCAP. The data were exported, and descriptive statistics were analysed using SPSS.
Participants were mostly female, with males accounting for 25%. Findings indicate several NPs working in outpatient settings, community settings and forensic care. Patterns of practice-prescribing and ordering diagnostics-are associated with clinical context and model of care of the NP work.
目的是确定澳大利亚维多利亚州执业护士(NP)的角色如何转化为临床实践。本文报告了NP在多个临床环境和地理位置的工作模式及执业范围的详细情况。
采用定量调查设计。基于先前工作的一种数据提取工具被用于本研究。
澳大利亚一个州的所有NP均有资格参与本研究,并受邀完成一项关于其NP执业情况的在线调查。一个先前开发的用于收集NP执业模式的数据收集工具被改编为可在REDCAP上在线使用。数据被导出,并使用SPSS进行描述性统计分析。
参与者大多为女性,男性占25%。研究结果表明,有几位NP在门诊、社区和法医护理环境中工作。执业模式(开处方和安排诊断)与NP工作的临床背景和护理模式相关。