• Oncology Ny · Apr 1998

    Review

    Roles of advanced practice nurses in oncology.

    • K M Blackburn.
    • Ernst & Young, LLP, New York, New York, USA.
    • Oncology Ny. 1998 Apr 1; 12 (4): 591-6, 598; discussion 598, 601-3.

    AbstractManaged care is a process of health-care management that integrates financing, cost-containment strategies, and business principles with the delivery of health care. Managed care's rapid transformation of specialty practices, such as oncology, is redirecting classic nursing functions toward market initiatives that value the design of care/case management systems and the implementation of multidisciplinary "patient-centered" care models. As health-care systems continue to evolve, advanced practice nurses (APNs) are redefining their roles and enhancing their skills to meet the demands of the marketplace. Advanced practice nurses are defined as registered nurses who have met advanced educational and practice requirements and are prepared at the graduate level. This paper will identify the four established APN roles: nurse practitioner (NP), nurse anesthetist, nurse midwife, and clinical nurse specialist (CNS), as well as highlight the nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist as the leadership APN roles within oncology practice. The adaption to managed care has identified new functions and created opportunities for these APN specialties that are being viewed both competitively by other oncology health-care providers and creatively by managed-care organizations. The integration of these emerging roles within the new advanced nursing market and their contributions to oncology care are also discussed.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…