Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care

Naomi Chambers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781315348551
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

This text examines the potential of nurses to provide a first-point-of-contact consultation service as an alternative to going to see the doctor. It analyzes the different nurse practitioners models around the world and presents a proposal for the UK. Using research material to describe the impact of this kind of nurse practitioners on patients, doctors and other nurses, the book proposes practical steps through which this model can be implemented and considers the professional implications for doctors and nurses.

Index

access to nurse practitioners 94–101

advanced nurses 78

Advisory Group on Nurse Prescribing 31–2

appointments

nurse practitioners as alternative first point of contact 25

waiting times

effect of nurse practitioners 52–3, 54, 96

patient dissatisfaction 11, 13

biomedical generalists 63–4

British Medical Association (BMA) 26

Burke-Masters, Barbara 20–1, 22, 26–7, 93

burnout, GPs 8, 67

Canada 18–19, 24

care gaps 21–2, 52–5

certificated training 78

children

consultation experience 50, 123

minor illnesses 44 see also mothers of small children

China 22

Choice and Opportunity 10, 87

clinical director model 67–8

clinical nurse specialists 29–30

clinical specialists 64–6

Code of Professional Conduct 29

Colin-Thome, David 94

commissioning specialists 68

communication skills, GPs 5

vs. nurse practitioners 46, 47, 48

patient dissatisfaction 11–12

community nurses

attitudes to nurse practitioners 98

government policy 30

training 16

USA 16

confidence in nurse practitioners

by GPs 83–4

by nurse practitioners 83

consultation experience 37, 45–51, 96

biomedical generalists 63

gender issues 39–41

nurse-patient relationship 41–2

patient choice 37–9

patient-devised triage 42–3

predicted and unanticipated benefits of nurse practitioners 43–5

consumerism 11

contracting of services 9

contracts

GPs 8–9, 32

primary care organizations 73...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright-Page
• Table Of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• An alternative to seeing the doctor?
• Nurse practitioners for the UK
• The consultation experience
• Nurse practitioners and the organization of primary care
• The nurse practitioner role: professional implications for doctors and nurses
• Practical steps
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Index