Acceptance of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

Nurse practitioners in the USA – their past, present and future

“…Not all patients have been indifferent to the NP′s role. About 94 per cent of patients (parents) seen by both physicians and nurse practitioners in a paediatric practice indicated that services were as good or better than before[36]. Of patients who had been seen by the physician before employment of the NPs, 48.5 per cent responded that services had improved.…”

The effectiveness of various health personnel as triage agents

“…Nurse practitioners have proven to be effective providers of health care 9-12 and have been readily accepted by patients. 13 In many clinics, registered nurses have been effectively used in the performance of triage and some clinics have reported success with nonprofessional, skilled persons who were trained on the job. 6 Little data exist on the comparative abilities of various health professionals to perform triage effectively.14 Russo and associates have shown that the triage evaluations made by pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) a g e e d with those of pediatricians 84% of the time.…”

Factors Associated with Patient Evaluation of Health Care

“…Ninety-six percent of the patients who saw a nurse practitioner were satisfied with the health services they received as compared with 97 percent who saw a physician. Similarly, Day et al (1970) reported that 95 percent of their sample of mothers expressed satisfaction with their contact with a pediatric nurse practitioner. Finally, Nelson et al (1974) report that patient acceptance of physician assistants they studied was extremely high, with 89 per cent assessing the Medex studied as " very com petent," 83 per cent as " sure of him self," and 86 percent as " very professional in his manner."…”