Rhetoric or reality? What nurse practitioners do to provide self-management support in outpatient clinics: an ethnographic study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe how nurse practitioners enact their role in outpatient consultations, and how this compares to their perception of their responsibility for patients with chronic conditions.

Background: Nurse practitioners working with patients with chronic conditions seek to support them in self-managing their diseases.

Design: An ethnographic study.

Driven by Ambitions: The Nurse Practitioner's Role Transition in Dutch Hospital Care.

Introduction: Insight into nurse practitioners' (NPs') role transition can help NP students and new graduates in taking on new responsibilities in a changing and demanding healthcare context. The aim of the research was to explore the role transition from nurse to NP using the components of Meleis's Framework of Transitions.

Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Learning to attain an advanced level of professional responsibility.

Background: After graduation, nurse practitioner students are expected to be capable of providing complex, evidence-based nursing care independently, combined with standardized medical care. The students who follow work-study programs have to develop their competencies in a healthcare environment dominated by efficiency policies.

Objective: This study aims to explore nurse practitioner students' perceptions of their professional responsibility for patient care.

Vantage point - Learn by reflecting.

EDUCATION IS described as a 'bridge to quality' ( Greiner and Knebel 2003 ) and, for this reason, teachers must be involved in putting safe patient care on students' radar. They can do this by teaching students how to meet their healthcare system's demands relating to high quality care, and how they can improve individual patient care.

Learning opportunities in case studies for becoming a reflective nurse practitioner.

The transition from RN to nurse practitioner presents challenges. Because nurse practitioners require deeper critical decision-making abilities to provide safe and quality health care, the Master in Advanced Nursing Practice curriculum implemented reflective case studies to facilitate active and reflective learning. To identify the learning opportunities, we performed a qualitative interpretative study of 77 reflective case studies written by students enrolled in the program.