Nurse Practitioners in another country

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Hi,

I am a nurse practitioner student who is interested talking to a nurse practitioner from another country. It is for a professional issues class I a currently taking. I would love to talk to someone about the differences of nursing here and a different country of origin.

Please contact me if you are willing to help. Thanks Joyce.

Specializes in CTICU.

Yes - NPs are pretty new in Oz, but they can't bill at all as are not a Medicare-recognized provider, so have their hands tied.

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Specializes in mental health; hangover remedies.
That's disgraceful but not entirely surprising. In secondary care i have the benefit of being able to say if you won't accept the referral from me shall I get my consultant to call you to explain why you think I'm not an appropriate professional to refer.

My worry is that we are asking nurses to take on these advancing roles and massive responsiblity but then don't follow up with to tools and respect that allows us to do the job.

I have frequent debates on a certain uk medical blog - tho I'm Oz now, I'm ex-UK.

The main gist of their arguments are - NPs are not good enough - but we've yet to see the evidence that they're not. There seems plenty to say that they are tho.

Personally I've never liked (or done) academia (RMN by trad. training) so I'm unlikely to achieve the requirement for NP. But I'm all for it.

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