Scope of Practice for Emergency Nurse Practitioners

Theresa M Campo1, Margaret J Carman, Dian Evans

  • 1Co-Director Family Nurse Practitioner Track and Associate Clinical Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Atlanticare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Nursing, Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Clinical Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA Clinical Professor, University of San Diego, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science: Beyster Institute for Nursing Research, San Diego, CA; Emergency Nurse Practitioner, St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, Editor, Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA Section NP/PA Director, Schumacher Clinical Partners, Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Citizens Medical Center, Victoria, TX; Clinical Instructor, UTHealth School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas Professor Clinical Nursing and Director Emergency/Trauma NP Concentration, UTHealth School of Nursing, Houston Texas; President/Founder American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners Assistant Professor, Marcella Niefhoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Emergency Nurse Practitioner CHI St Luke's Memorial San Augustine Hospital, San Augustine, TX; Instructor UTHealth School of Nursing Houston, TX Associate Professor & ENP Specialty Director, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine, Houston, TX.

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