Sue Denham, an emergency nurse practitioner, shares her experience implementing the practitioner role into the ED of a regional public hospital, despite many initial objections. It’s hard to believe I’m writing this and even harder to believe that only a ...

The emergence of nurse practitioners in Australia has profoundly changed the nursing profession, Flynn Murphy reports. An article published in the British Medical Journal begins with the question: “Nurse or minor medical practitioner?” It continues: “There is a real risk of ...