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Article: Advanced practice: implications for clinical and procurement transplant coordinators
- Article from:
- Progress in Transplantation
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright North American Transplant Coordinators Organization Jun 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Advanced Practice and Transplant Coordination: Discovered, not New
The advanced practice moniker has been launched throughout the nursing profession. It is defined by the American Nurses Association as a nurse who has met advanced educational and clinical practice requirements beyond the 4 years of basic nursing. This definition includes nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives.1 The scope of practice and prescriptive authority varies from state to state.
How does the term advanced practice apply to procurement and clinical transplant coordinators? Although many clinical transplant coordinators are nurses, procurement coordinators have varied ...