Integrating Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants Into the ICU: Strategies for Optimizing Contributions to Care

By Ruth M. Kleinpell, Ed.

As the roles of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in the ICU expand, so does the need to promote their proper and optimal utilization as members of the critical care team. Integrating Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants Into the ICU provides vital information and resources for how to do just that.. With staffing schedule models, orientation/training templates, and other practical educational resources, this essential reference also serves as a resource for clinicians and institutions that seek to enhance patient care by introducing or further expanding their use of NPs and PAs into their the multiprofessional ICU workforce teams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093614582X
• ISBN13: 9780936145822
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Length: 176 Pages