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Use of knowledge discovery techniques to understand nurse practitioner practice patterns and their integration into a
Esther Sangster-Gormley1, Mu-Hsing Kuo, Elizabeth M Borycki
1School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Abstract:
The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of applying knowledge discovery techniques to identifying nurse practitioner practice patterns and enacted scope of practice. For the research, we plan to use data extracted from a Ministry of Health database. The data items are focused around: nurse practitioner demographics, health authorities, and encounter types. This analysis produces patterns that indicate relationships between the demographics, scope of practice and practice settings of nurse practitioners working in British Columbia.
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