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Jennings, N., Clifford, S., Fox, A. R., O'Connell, J., & Gardner, G. (2015). The impact of nurse practitioner services on cost, quality of care, satisfaction and waiting times in the emergency department: A systematic review. International Journal Of Nursing Studies, 52(1), 421-435. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.07.006 The authors through a systematic review of literature attempt to clarify the effectiveness of using the nurse practitioner in the emergency department to save cost and improve patient outcome while at the same time reducing long wait times experienced by patients in Australia. This showed that wait times were reduced, quality of care did improve as well as patient satisfaction but there was not enough data to prove cost …show more content…

The article addressed the role of the nurse practitioner in improving outcome, patient compliance, satisfaction with care received and knowledge of their disease. Studies were conducted in UK, USA, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The role of the nurse practitioner varied greatly in all the different countries as well as the results of the study. There was a uniform result of greater patient satisfaction with nurse provided care which was attributed to time spent with patient, teaching skills executed during nurse interaction with patient. Patient knowledge acquired through nurse patient teaching also showed increased patient compliance. There is need for strong data to prove the effectiveness of the nurse practitioner in the community setting. This will help boost the nurse practitioner role …show more content…

Implications for practice as noted in this article includes the need for a structured way of clarifying the APN duties. Role clarification can also be achieved through a professional unifying system. Global acceptance of the ANP role can be achieved through role clarification. (Lowe et al., 2012). References Jennings, N., Clifford, S., Fox, A. R., O'Connell, J., & Gardner, G. (2015). The impact of nurse practitioner services on cost, quality of care, satisfaction and waiting times in the emergency department: A systematic review. International Journal Of Nursing Studies, 52(1), 421-435. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.07.006 Keleher, H., Parker, R., Abdulwadud, O., & Francis, K. (2009). Systematic review of the effectiveness of primary care nursing. International Journal Of Nursing Practice, 15(1), 16-24. doi:10.1111/j.1440-172X.2008.01726.x Lowe, G., Plummer, V., O'Brien, A. P., & Boyd, L. (2012). Time to clarify - the value of advanced practice nursing roles in health care. Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 68(3), 677-685. doi:10.1111/j.1365-

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