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Developing the Nurse Practitioner role in a rural Australian hospital \u2011 a Delphi study of practice opportunities, barriers and enablers<br \/>\nDesign: A three-round Delphi study.<br \/>\nSetting: A rural hospital.<br \/>\nParticipants: Twenty-eight nurses, five doctors, four consumers, two health service managers, two allied health practitioners, one midwife, three community workers, two administrators and three others with hospital affiliation.<br \/>\nMain Outcome Measures: Consensus at 75% level of agreement or greater, identifying service gaps which might benefit from NPs and the barriers and enablers impacting on the success of developing and implementing the role.<br \/>\nResults: Introduce mental health, aged and critical care NPs initially. Barriers and enablers identified as impacting on the development and implementation of the role were:<\/p>\n<p>Educational access for isolated rural nurses \u2011 local cohort learning with employment contracts encompassing fee assistance and designated study time.<br \/>\nAcceptance from doctors \u2011 supported role provided the proposed service is sustainable. Small teams of NPs would achieve this.<br \/>\nInappropriate Recruitment \u2011 NP role matching service need, not individual.<br \/>\nPolicy and Funding Constraints \u2011 clients are best served by NPs working across the care continuum.&nbsp;Co-funding by acute and community providers could overcome the current constraints of commonwealth\/state payment.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: In developing and implementing NP roles at a rural health service the issues of access to tertiary education, creating a sustainable number of NP positions and financial cooperation from community and acute providers must be taken into account. Only then can nurses who wish to take on this NP role in a rural health service have the possibility of success.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Helen Haines<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Critchley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>rural, Nurse Practitioners (NP), Delphi study<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Developing the Nurse Practitioner role in a rural Australian hospital \u2011 a Delphi study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4973,4795,1937],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-delphi-study","tag-nurse-practitioners-np","tag-rural","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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