The current challenges affecting home care make the environment ripe for the development of new models of advanced practice nursing in home care. This article explores the barriers and benefits of advanced practice nursing in home care and describes the changes needed to fully integrate the advanced practice nurse into the home care delivery system.
Barnard, A. (2001, February 25). Needed: RNs to aid ailing profession. The Boston Globe, pp. A1-A1, A21-A21.
2.
Brooten, D. , Kumar, S., Brown, L. P., Butts, P., Finkler, S. A., Bakewell-Sachs, S., Gibbons, A., & Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M. (1986). A randomized clinical trial of early hospital discharge and home follow-up of very-low-birth-weight infants. New England Journal of Medicine, 315,934-939.
3.
Bureau of Health Professions , Division of Nursing. (2001). The registered nurse population. Health Resources and Services Administration. Washington DC: Author.
4.
Burns-Tisdale, S. , & Goff, W. F. (1989). The geriatric nurse practitioner in home care. Nursing Clinics of North America, 24,809-817.
5.
Dellasega, C. A. , & Zerbe, T. M. (2000). A multimethod study of advanced practice nurse postdischarge care. Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners, 4,286-293.
6.
Ford, L. C. (1990). 25 years later 25 exceptional NPs look at the movement’s evolution and consider future challenges for the role. Nurse Practitioner, 15,28-28.
7.
Krauss, J. B. (1993). Health care reform: Essential mental health services. American Nurses Publishing, 1-69.
8.
Kravitz, R. L. , Reuben, D. B., Davis, J. W., Mitchall, A., Hemmerling, K., Kington, R. S., & Siu, A. L. (1994). Geriatric home assessment after hospital discharge. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 42,1229-1234.
9.
Lacey, K. O. , & Minarik, P. A. (2000). Medicare reimbursement of APNs. American Journal of Nursing, 100, 24AAA-24DDD.
10.
Mayeroff, M. (1971). On caring. New York: HarperCollins.
11.
McCorkle, R. , Strumpf, N. E., Nuamah, I. F., Adler, D. C., Cooley, M. E., Jepson, C., Lusk, E. J., & Torosian, M. (2000). A specialized home care intervention improves survival among older post-surgical cancer patients. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 48,1707-1713.
12.
Mitty, E. , & Mezey, M. (1998). Integrating advanced practice nurses in home care. Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, 19,265-270.
13.
National Association for Home Care . (2000). Basic statistics about home care. Washington, DC: Author.
14.
National Association for Home Care . (2001). Basic statistics about home care. Washington, DC: Author.
15.
Naylor, M. D. , Brooten, D., Campbell, R., Jacobsen, B. S., Mezey, M. D., Pauly, M. V., Schwartz, J., & Sanford, J. (1999). Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalized elders: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281,613-620.
16.
Pike, A. W. (2001). Entering collegial relations: The demise of nurse as victim. In J. M. Dochterman & H. K. Grace (Eds.), Current issues in nursing (6th ed., pp. 448-452). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
17.
Rinke, L. T. , & Holt, S. W. (2000). Primary care in the home: The time is now!Home Health Care Management & Practice, 12, 1-9.
18.
Statement on clinical nurse specialist practice and education. (1998). National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. Glenview, IL: Author.
19.
Thomas, J. S. , Graff, B. M., Hollingsworth, A. O., Cohen, S. M., & Rubin, M. M. (1992). Home visiting for a posthysterectomy population. Home Healthcare Nurse, 10,47-52.
20.
Twardon, C. , & Gartner, M. (1992). A strategy for growth in home care. Journal of Nursing Administration, 22,49-53.
21.
Wong, S. T. (1999). Reimbursement to advanced practice nurses (APNs) through Medicare. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 31,167-173.
