The communicative power of nurse practitioners in multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams.

CONCLUSIONS: The study's conclusions concern the structure of the intrateam knowledge-exchange behaviors and, in particular, the role of the NP as knowledge boundary spanner. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The study hypothesizes that the hallmark of well-functioning multidisciplinary teams is the effective intrateam knowledge exchange and that Saskatchewan's new NPs bring a "boundary-spanning" capacity to the knowledge exchange of the province's multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams. The study fills this gap in the conceptual and empirical research within the evolving context of the reorganization of primary health care. PMID: 23347245 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: J Am Acad Nurse Pract Source Type: research