Impact of state nurse practitioner scope-of-practice regulation on health care delivery: Systematic review

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-85

  Xue, Ying ^a   Ye, Zhiqiu ^b   Brewer, Carol ^c   Spetz, Joanne ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nurse practitioner; Primary care; Scope of practice regulation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957432524     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2015.08.005     Document Type: Article

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