Being strategic: Utilising consumer views to better promote an expanded role for nurses in Australian general practice

Culturally and linguistically diverse general practitioners’ utilisation of practice nurses

“…Despite this, their views regarding the roles and functions of PNs were not dissimilar to previous findings which demonstrated the under-utilisation of the capacity and skills of PNs, and the lack of professional recognition of the PN role in general practice settings (Halcomb, Davidson, Salamonson, Ollerton, & Griffiths, 2008;Price, Patterson, & Hegney, 2006). It is likely that most of these GPs have been practising as solo practitioners, with no experience of working with PNs who perform both core clinical skills, as well as undertake advanced and expanded nursing skills (Halcomb, Davidson, Salamonson, et al, 2008).…”

“…This concern is supported by Oldroyd et al (2003) who also reported that the employment of a PN by solo GPs was not affordable despite funding incentives. This gives credence to the idea that the current health care funding system devalues the role of the PN in general practice (Price, et al, 2006). Nevertheless, increasing the fee-for-service reimbursement alone for nursing activities is not likely to be the solution.…”

Genome-Wide Association Studies for Growth and Meat Production Traits in Sheep

“…Ten main principle components (PCs) were evaluated using 17,082 independent SNP markers to correct for population structure estimated using the v3.0 EIGENSOFT software [34], [35].These SNPs were pruned using the indep-pairwise option in PLINK, with a window size of 1500 SNPs and r 2 threshold of 0.2. In this study, all samples have clear resources and the population is from three separate breeds.…”

Benefits and limitations of nurses taking on aspects of the clinical role of doctors in primary care: integrative literature review

“…The importance of using consumers’ views to promote an expanded role for nurses has been highlighted in Australia (Price et al. 2006).…”

“…The importance of using consumers' views to promote an expanded role for nurses has been highlighted in Australia (Price et al 2006). Data collected using focus groups showed that Australian consumers often saw the role of the practice nurse as subordinate rather than complementary to GPs, and that GPs themselves must accept the developing nursing role in order to convince consumers.…”