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Background The nurse practitioner may be the ideal healthcare worker to create a new environment and may facilitate in the process of expediting discharge and improving patient safety. They can play an intermediary role between the consultants, nurses and patients, thereby combining the aspects of care (nursing) and cure (physicians). Method We describe the contribution and role of the nurse practitioner...
Objectives This study evaluated the waiting list for elective electrical cardioversion (ECV) for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), focusing on when and why procedures were postponed. We compared the effects of management of the waiting list conducted by physicians versus management by nurse practitioners (NPs) and we evaluated the safety of our anticoagulating policy by means of bleeding or thromboembolic...
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