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Development of collaborative family nurse practitioner education using physician preceptors: A focused critical
Caryn Scheinberg Andrews1, Julie Vosit Steller2, Abigail Kra Friedman1
1Simmons University,300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America; Henrietta Szold Hadassah School of Nursing at the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Background:
Global oppressive power structures in healthcare systems and between professions hinder care delivery. The family nurse practitioner is a new role in Israel. Through an innovative international collaborative education partnership, 19 Israeli nurses were trained as family nurse practitioners. Israeli physician preceptors integrated them into a national health maintenance organization despite national and organizational resistance.
Objectives:
Explore Israeli physicians' experiences while providing clinical mentorship to family nurse practitioners and develop strategies for the implementation of the new community role.
Design:
Qualitative focused critical ethnographic approach.
Participants:
Eleven Israeli physician preceptors were recruited from a larger pool of 50.
Methods:
Physicians were interviewed via recorded phone calls and asked open-ended questions about precepting family nurse practitioners. Observations of the program were included from the year prior to the interviews. Data were analyzed using Carspecken's five steps for critical ethnographic approach.
Results:
Three categories for transforming the current status were identified: role clarification, logistics, and collaborative education. Exemplar cases described collaborative practice regarding measurable outcomes. Learning happened through "shadowing" and "coaching" techniques. Findings led to the Collaborative Team Development Illustration which mirrors current recommendations from the World Health Organization and Institute of Medicine.
Conclusions:
The Collaborative Team Development Illustration offers a structured strategy for advocacy and transformation in other oppressive health systems considering introducing nurse practitioners. This paper provides evidence that physician participants believed partnerships with nurse practitioners could improve patient care delivery. We hope this research will contribute to changing power relations in healthcare and improve outcomes. This may offer hope for integration of family nurse practitioners in countries that currently do not support advanced practice nursing roles.
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