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A qualitative study utilizing a focus group to explore the role and concept of the nurse practitioner
Author(s) -
Torn Alison,
McNichol Elaine
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00648.x
Subject(s) - focus group , nurse practitioners , qualitative research , nursing , diversity (politics) , psychology , qualitative property , focus (optics) , cohort , medicine , sociology , health care , computer science , political science , social science , physics , optics , machine learning , anthropology , law
This paper describes the first part of a two‐stage study exploring the concept of the nurse practitioner role. By utilization of a focus group methodology, data were collated from a cohort of eight RCN trained nurse practitioners. The transcript from their discussion was subjected to a qualitative‐based content analysis. Eight categories emerged from the data and this paper explores four of them. These are: role recognition, feature of the nurse practitioner role, nurse/patient relationship and doctor/patient relationship. As a whole the focus group discussion highlighted the diversity in application of the nurse practitioner title. This in part, reflects the rapidly evolving role and the ongoing debate regarding the terms advanced and specialist practitioner.