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Hospital‐based nurse practitioner roles and interprofessional practice: A scoping review
Author(s) -
HurlockChorostecki Christina,
Forchuk Cheryl,
Orchard Carole,
Soeren Mary,
Reeves Scott
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/nhs.12107
Subject(s) - operationalization , inclusion (mineral) , nursing , teamwork , nurse practitioners , medicine , medline , psychology , health care , political science , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , law
This scoping review provides current global understanding of the rapidly evolving nurse practitioner role within hospital settings, and considers the level of understanding of its enactment within interprofessional teamwork. A rksey and O ' M alley's framework was used to explore recent primary research, reviews, and gray literature in two ways. First, hospital‐based nurse practitioner literature was mapped to country of origin, and thematically summarized. Second, clearly developed and consistently defined key interprofessional concepts were identified in the interprofessional literature then conceptually mapped to the nurse practitioner studies by their operationalization. The nurse practitioner review located 103 abstracts. Twenty‐nine, originating from four countries, met the inclusion criteria. The interprofessional concept review identified a total of 137 relevant abstracts, however, only ten met the inclusion criteria. Understanding the nurse practitioner role within hospital teams remains limited due to a small number of countries producing evidence, the lack of nurse practitioner role title standardization hindering consistent knowledgebase development, and limited application and inconsistent operationalization of concepts within nurse practitioner research. Research focused on role enactment is needed to understand the uniqueness of the hospital‐based nurse practitioner role.

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