TY - JOUR
T1 - A global perspective of advanced practice nursing research
T2 - A review of systematic reviews protocol
AU - Kilpatrick, Kelley
AU - Savard, Isabelle
AU - Audet, Li Anne
AU - Kra-Friedman, Abby
AU - Atallah, Renée
AU - Jabbour, Mira
AU - Zhou, Wentao
AU - Wheeler, Kathy
AU - Ladd, Elissa
AU - Gray, Deborah C.
AU - Henderson, Colette
AU - Spies, Lori A.
AU - McGrath, Heather
AU - Rogers, Melanie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Newton Foundation via the Susan E. French Chair in Nursing Research and Innovative Practice held by KK. KK is also supported by a Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (https://frq. gouv.qc.ca/en/health/) Research Scholar Senior (Award Number 298573) salary award. There was no additional external funding received for this study, and the authors received no specific funding for this work. All the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Kilpatrick et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023/1/24
Y1 - 2023/1/24
N2 - INTRODUCTION: In 2020, the World Health Organization called for the expansion and greater recognition of all nursing roles, including advanced practice nurses (APNs), to better meet patient care needs. As defined by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the two most common APN roles include nurse practitioners (NPs) and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). They help ensure care to communities as well as patients and families with acute, chronic or complex conditions. Moreover, APNs support providers to deliver high quality care and improve access to services. Currently, there is much variability in the use of advanced practice nursing roles globally. A clearer understanding of the roles that are in place across the globe, and how they are being used will support greater role harmonization, and inform global priorities for advanced practice nursing education, research, and policy reform. OBJECTIVE: To identify current gaps in advanced practice nursing research globally. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This review of systematic reviews will provide a description of the current state of the research, including gaps, on advanced practice nursing globally. We will include reviews that examine APNs, NPs or CNSs using recognized role definitions. We will search the CINAHL, EMBASE, Global Health, HealthStar, PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews and Controlled Trials Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Joanna Briggs Institute, and Web of Science electronic databases for reviews published from January 2011 onwards, with no restrictions on jurisdiction or language. We will search the grey literature and hand search the reference lists of all relevant reviews to identify additional studies. We will extract country, patient, provider, health system, educational, and policy/scope of practice data. We will assess the quality of each included review using the CASP criteria, and summarize their findings. This review of systematic reviews protocol was developed following the PRISMA-P recommendations.
AB - INTRODUCTION: In 2020, the World Health Organization called for the expansion and greater recognition of all nursing roles, including advanced practice nurses (APNs), to better meet patient care needs. As defined by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the two most common APN roles include nurse practitioners (NPs) and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). They help ensure care to communities as well as patients and families with acute, chronic or complex conditions. Moreover, APNs support providers to deliver high quality care and improve access to services. Currently, there is much variability in the use of advanced practice nursing roles globally. A clearer understanding of the roles that are in place across the globe, and how they are being used will support greater role harmonization, and inform global priorities for advanced practice nursing education, research, and policy reform. OBJECTIVE: To identify current gaps in advanced practice nursing research globally. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This review of systematic reviews will provide a description of the current state of the research, including gaps, on advanced practice nursing globally. We will include reviews that examine APNs, NPs or CNSs using recognized role definitions. We will search the CINAHL, EMBASE, Global Health, HealthStar, PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews and Controlled Trials Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Joanna Briggs Institute, and Web of Science electronic databases for reviews published from January 2011 onwards, with no restrictions on jurisdiction or language. We will search the grey literature and hand search the reference lists of all relevant reviews to identify additional studies. We will extract country, patient, provider, health system, educational, and policy/scope of practice data. We will assess the quality of each included review using the CASP criteria, and summarize their findings. This review of systematic reviews protocol was developed following the PRISMA-P recommendations.
KW - advanced practice nursing
KW - advanced practice nurse
KW - nurse prescriber
KW - adult gerontology nurse practitioner
KW - family nurse practitioner
KW - primary healthcare nurse practitioner
KW - clinical nurse specialist
KW - infection control practitioner
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0280726
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0280726
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 36693061
AN - SCOPUS:85147048032
VL - 18
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 1
M1 - e0280726
ER -
