Nurse practitioners

This article highlights the biggest health concern across North America: environmental hazards. Discusses workplace hazards in Nursing. 

This article is a not so imaginary piece of fiction about a nurse’s efforts to meet the desires of a patient when faced with hospital bureaucracy.

The survey was administered to a sample of LPNs, RNs and RPNs from across the country. Data from the survey help to identify relationships between selected health outcomes, the work environment and work-life experiences.

Highlights current trends in the nursing workforces and provides provincial/territorial nursing workforce profiles. This document also presents a partial look at the Health Human Resource workforce of Canada's provincial and territorial health regions.

Provides a review of general definitions and position papers on scopes of practice of health professions.

Presents contextual information on the history, roles and current regulation of the nurse practitioner (NP) profession in Canada with an updated statistical profile of the licensed NP workforce.

Provides contextual information on the history, roles and regulation of the nurse practitioner (NP) profession in Canada with a statistical profile of the licensed NP workforce.

Argues that nurse practitioners function as well as doctors in a variety of circumstances, and they can perform some tasks better than doctors can.

Examines the evidence on role change and delegation from physicans to advance practice nurses in terms of costs and benefits, cost-effectiveness and other outcomes.