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An Emerging Role for Nurse Practitioners—Preoperative Assessment
Author(s) -
Barnett Jennifer S.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60275-5
Subject(s) - nurse practitioners , medicine , operating room nursing , perioperative nursing , nursing , political science , health care , surgery , perioperative , law
• NURSE PRACTITIONERS (NPs) are expanding their role beyond primary care, and preoperative assessment is one area in which existing medical and nursing models of care could be merged to create a specialty role for NPs. • THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS health‐related literature regarding the impact of NPs in the preoperative assessment setting and explores the potential for this emerging role as an alternative to existing preoperative assessment models. AORN J 82 (November 2005) 825–834.