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Australia Not Making Effective Use Of Nurse Practitioners

by Gopalan on November 16, 2009 at 12:01 PM Nursing Profession News

Australia is failing to make best use of its nurse practitioners, a new survey seems to show.

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�Given the high level of educational preparation and clinical expertise manifest in nurse practitioners, underemployment in this highly skilled sector of the nursing workforce represents a waste of valuable human resources,� lead author of the survey report Professor Anne Gardner said.

The study found that nearly a third of the nursing practitioners who responded to the survey were waiting for approval to prescribe medication.

More than 70 per cent�said that the lack of Medicare provider numbers and lack of authority to prescribe through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was extremely limiting to their practice.

This is despite the fact that the highly experienced nurse practitioners are authorised through legislation at state level to prescribe medication and to request diagnostic investigations within their specific specialty field and to refer patients to other health professionals.

The survey results are reported in the most recent edition of the Australian Health Review, the peer reviewed journal of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.

Professor Gardner, from James Cook University�s School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, said that the first Australian nurse practitioner was authorised in New South Wales in 2000 but this survey was the first census profiling the service in Australia.

''The findings reveal that we are under-utilising this highly experienced sector of the Australian health workforce,� Professor Gardner said.

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