Reframing professional boundaries in healthcare: A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to task reallocation from the domain of medicine to the nursing domain

Health Policy

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 151-169

  Niezen, Maartje G H ^a   Mathijssen, Jolanda J P ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advanced practice nursing; Nurse practitioners; Organisational innovation; Physician nurse relations; Professional delegation; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICINE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROFESSIONALISM; REVIEW; ROLE PLAYING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELEGATION, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICINE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905051001     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.04.016     Document Type: Review

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