An Emerging Role for Nurse Practitioners-Preoperative Assessment

ABSTRACT
- NURSE PRACTITIONERS (NPs) are expanding their role beyond primary care, and preoperative assessment is one area in which existing medical and nursing models of care could be merged to create a specialty role for NPs.
- THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS health-related literature regarding the impact of NPs in the preoperative assessment setting and explores the potential for this emerging role as an alternative to existing preoperative assessment models. AORN J 82 (November 2005) 825-834.