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This review discusses the evolving role of advanced practice nurses in surgery, offering a conceptual model and reviewing literature on development, evaluation, and practice issues.
This article reviews the development, evaluation, and practice issues of the emerging role of the surgical advanced practice nurse.
Should not yet change perioperative team structures; leaves open prospective validation of conceptual models for surgical advanced practice nurses.
Health care reform has created many opportunities for advanced practice nurses and for OR nurses who want to go beyond traditional circulating and scrub roles. This article will briefly differentiate between expanded and advanced nursing practice and offer a definition and conceptual model for the surgical arena. Literature will be reviewed related to development, evaluation, and practice issues of the emerging role of the surgical advanced practice nurse.
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D. Hodson (1998) conducted a review in Surgical advanced practice nursing. Advanced practice nursing in surgery was evaluated. This review discusses the evolving role of advanced practice nurses in surgery, offering a conceptual model and reviewing literature on development, evaluation, and practice issues.
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