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Nurse practitioner in a rural setting
1Family Nurse Practitioner Program, Charles and Josie Smith Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
The Nursing Clinics of North America
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
The author details her experiences as a nurse practitioner in rural southeast Missouri. The passage of Missouri House Bill 564 encouraged greater utilization of nurse practitioners to provide primary care. This article shares some of the frustrations, joys, and trials by fire of the author. Among the issues presented are practice issues, prescriptive authority, professional liability, evaluation of practice, and changes for the future.