Enablers and barriers to nurse practitioners working in Australian aged care: A scoping review.

Objective: To identify evidence reporting on nurse practitioners working in aged care in Australia and to categorise the reported factors found to be barriers or facilitators to operation in terms of establishment, sustainability, and expansion.

Introduction: Nurse practitioners work in a variety of aged care contexts throughout Australia but are underutilised and uncommon. Despite evidence for their effectiveness, it is unclear what barriers or enabling factors contribute to the successful and sustainable implementation of nurse practitioners working in this sector.

Development of nurse practitioner metaspecialty clinical practice standards: A national sequential mixed methods study.

Aim: To achieve profession-wide consensus on clinical practice standards for six broad Australian nurse practitioner specialty areas (termed metaspecialties).

Design: Sequential mixed methods with initial interpretive study (Interpretive Phase) followed by modified three-round Delphi study (Survey Phase).

Methods: Participants from all Australian jurisdictions were recruited.

The use of advanced web-based survey design in Delphi research.

Aim: A discussion of the application of metadata, paradata and embedded data in web-based survey research, using two completed Delphi surveys as examples.

Background: Metadata, paradata and embedded data use in web-based Delphi surveys has not been described in the literature. The rapid evolution and widespread use of online survey methods imply that paper-based Delphi methods will likely become obsolete.

Consensus on an Australian Nurse practitioner specialty framework using Delphi methodology: results from the CLLEVER 2 study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to achieve profession-wide consensus on an Australian nurse practitioner specialty framework.

Background: Since its introduction in 1998, the Australian nurse practitioner profession has grown to over 1300 endorsed practitioners, representing over 50 different specialties. To complement better a generalist learning and teaching framework with specialist clinical education, prior research proposed a broad framework of Australian nurse practitioner specialty areas termed metaspecialties.

Financial viability, benefits and challenges of employing a nurse practitioner in general practice.

This case study examines the financial viability, benefits and challenges of employing a primary healthcare (PHC) nurse practitioner (NP) in a bulk-billing healthcare cooperative in the Australian Capital Territory. There are few empirical case reports in the Australian literature that demonstrate financial sustainability of this type of healthcare professional in primary healthcare. This case study demonstrates that the costs of employing a PHC-NP in general practice are offset by direct and indirect Medicare billings generated by the PHC-NP, resulting in a cost-neutral healthcare practitioner.