Two hundred days of nurse practitioner prescribing and role development: a case study report from a hospital-based acute pain management team.

Purpose: This report evaluates a beginning Nurse Practitioner (NP) role in Acute Pain Management. HEALTHCARE SETTING: The role was implemented within an anaesthesiology-based pain service. The NP author developed this pain service in 2002 and was endorsed as an NP 6 years later.