HWN Suggests

Can a Nurse Practitioner Replace a Physician?

If you or your child were sick and were assigned to see a nurse practitioner instead of a physician, would you hesitate?

As a medical student in Cleveland, John was diagnosed with skin lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. He was terrified partly thanks to the word “cancer” but mainly by the uncertainty of his prognosis.

Soon after his diagnosis, he moved to Boston for his residency training at Harvard Medical School. His dermatologist devised a treatment plan and promptly referred him to a nurse practitioner named Marianne, who practiced within a physician-led team. He initially wondered whether he should switch to only seeing physicians, but those thoughts were fleeting:…

read full article

Featured

 Polypharmacy in Older Adults: Practical Applications Alongside a Patient Case

This article uses a case-based approach to showcase various issues that a nurse practitioner may encounter as it relates to polypharmacy and pharmacotherapeutic considerations. Tools are also explored to assess polypharmacy in the field.

Articles of Interest

Primary care outcomes in patients treated by nurse practitioners or physicians: a randomized trial.

In an ambulatory care situation in which patients were randomly assigned to either nurse practitioners or physicians, and where nurse practitioners had the same authority, responsibilities, productivity and administrative requirements, and patient population as primary care physicians, patients' outcomes were comparable.

Resources

Journal for Nurse Practitioners

JNP provides a highly credible resource to help nurse practitioners stay current with the clinical and policy concerns affecting their day-to-day practice. In addition to peer-reviewed clinical articles, JNP features continuing education opportunities and opinions and commentary on pressing legislative, regulatory, and clinical practice issues.

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

The Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP), an official, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, offers timely and original articles addressing clinical practice, clinical management, health policy, research, education, and other issues affecting NPs and other primary, acute and/or long-term health care providers.

American Journal of Critical Care

The American Journal of Critical Care is the premier source for evidence-based critical care practice. The journal''s mission is to provide its readers with clinically relevant content in every issue and to serve as a vehicle for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to achieve its mission of improving the care of critically ill patients and their families.

American Journal of Nursing

The American Journal of Nursing is the oldest and most honored broad-based nursing journal in the world. Peer reviewed and evidence-based, it is considered the profession’s premier journal. AJN's mission is to promote excellence in nursing and health care through the dissemination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information and original research, discussion of relevant and controversial professional issues, adherence to the standards of journalistic integrity and excellence, and promotion of nursing perspectives to the health care community and the public.

BMC Nursing

BMC Nursing is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of nursing research, training, education, and practice.

Clinical Advisor

The Clinical Advisor is a monthly journal for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in primary care. Its mission is to keep practitioners up to date with the latest information about diagnosing, treating, managing, and preventing conditions seen in a typical office-based primary-care setting.

Clinician Reviews

Clinician Reviews is a monthly, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to keeping the ever-growing nurse practitioner and physician assistant professions up-to-date on the latest advances in medicine and health care news. The clinical content covers a broad range of primary care topics.

Journal of Emergency Nursing

As the official peer-reviewed journal of the Emergency Nurses Association, the Journal of Emergency Nursing reaches the greatest number of emergency nurses, emergency/trauma departments and emergency department managers of any journal. The journal is always expanding its coverage of the practice and professional issues, based on current evidence, that challenge emergency nurses every day. It features original research and updates from the field.

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

NAPNAP is the professional home for PNPs and other advanced practice nurses who care for children. NAPNAP is the only national organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care for infants, children and adolescents and to advancing the PNP''s role in providing that care.

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

OJNI is a free, international, professional, refereed publication that focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing informatics as it relates to the art of nursing.

Practice Nursing

Practice Nursing is the essential monthly journal for all nurses and managers working in general practice. It is written by experienced practitioners and peer-reviewed by leading authorities in the field.