[NPInfo] Please translate

[Diana Galler]

Dave--
  See, in a nutshell, this is probably the main difference between NPs and PAs... If you were a NP you'd be used to this ridiculous nonsensical nurse-speak gobbly-gook and be sitting at your desk nodding your head in total amazement at the shear intellectual impact this study will have on the nursing profession specifically and world-wide health care systems in general. I have a funny feeling I must really be a PA at heart as I sat here for the longest time reading and rereading this abstract and finally had to break it down and study it each single word at a time. I appreciate Stephanie's translation as I'm embarrassed to admit I don't think I had any clue that's what this was all about <G>.
Dena Galler
   
  
Stephanie Walker <stephanie2u at optonline.net> wrote:
  I think all it's saying is that in the English NHS, they've 
introduced a number of advanced practice roles for nursing, in both 
the hospital and community healthcare settings. At this point, there 
is no clear agreement about the scope of practice of these advanced 
practice nurses. There has been some study of the impact of advanced 
practice nurses in hospitals, and this article is focusing on 
advanced practice nurses in community roles.

I get your point, though--there's no reason they can't use clear 
English in their abstract. There's no need to be so convoluted. It's 
only a turn-off.

Stephanie

On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:30 PM, David Mittman wrote:

> Exploring new advanced practice roles in community nursing: a critique
> Authors: Aranda, Kay1; Jones, Andrea2
> Source: Nursing Inquiry, Volume 15, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 3-10(8)
>
>
> Abstract:
> ARANDA K. Nursing Inquiry 2008; 15: 3-10
>
> Exploring new advanced practice roles in community nursing: a critique
>
> Attempts to `modernize' the English National Health Service (NHS) 
> have included significant workforce re-design, including the 
> development of new, advanced roles in nursing. There is a wealth of 
> evidence documenting and evaluating such roles in hospital and, to 
> a lesser extent, in community settings. This paper builds on this 
> work, drawing on recent post structural and sociological analyzes 
> to theorize these roles, locating them within broader social and 
> cultural changes taking place in healthcare and exploring how 
> understandings of new roles in community nursing are in the process 
> of being constructed. Building on a literature review, the paper 
> draws out what an analysis of new advanced nursing roles in the 
> community reveals about competing conceptualizations of the nursing 
> mandate, the ambivalence and ambiguity that practitioners 
> experience in shaping `new' identities (the shaping of 
> subjectivities), and the often implicit ideological positions that 
> underpin such developments.
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