Objectives Increasing professional nurses' and nursing students cultural competence has
been identified as one way to decrease the disparity of care for vulnerable and minority …

Background: Advanced practitioners including nurse practitioners and physician assistants
are contributing to care for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit through their …

Objective: To compare nurse practitioner/physician management of hospital care,
multidisciplinary team-based planning, expedited discharge, and assessment after …

Purpose: This purpose of this study was to differentiate between the roles of clinical nurse
specialists and acute care nurse practitioners. Background and Significance: Hypothesized …

Hospital administrators are shifting care delivery models toward an approach that uses more
caregivers in the form of mid‐level providers (MLPs), such as nurse practitioners, physician …

• Background Many academic medical centers employ nurse practitioners as substitutes to
provide care normally supplied by house staff.• Objective To compare outcomes in a …

The United States has since the 1960s developed a cadre of physician assistants to work in
primary care. They mainly work semi-autonomously in association with individual doctors …

Aims: The comprehensive review sought to examine the impact of Critical Care Nurse
Practitioner models, roles, activities and outcomes. Method: The Medical Literature Analyses …

BACKGROUND: ICUs are increasingly staffed with nurse practitioners/physician assistants
(NPs/PAs), but it is unclear how NPs/PAs influence quality of care. We examined the …

Objective: We sought to assess the impact of the integration of the new roles of primary
health care nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) on patient flow, wait …