When a Dose of Advanced Practice Nursing is the Treatment

Wells considers the idea that the presence of an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) in the care of frail older adults is an intervention in itself. That is, it is not necessarily what the APN does, but that an APN is there and has a patient or clinical problem in focus. One might even consider APN patien...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2002-12, Vol.50 (12), p.2092-2093
1. Verfasser: Wells, Thelma J.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Wells considers the idea that the presence of an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) in the care of frail older adults is an intervention in itself. That is, it is not necessarily what the APN does, but that an APN is there and has a patient or clinical problem in focus. One might even consider APN patient contact time in a dose rather than task framework.
ISSN:0002-8614
1532-5415
DOI:10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50625.x