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The actual and future challenges part of providing healthcare services in primary care are strong motivations for expanding nursing roles. In this chapter, an international overview of the development of advanced practice nursing in primary care is presented. This includes a description of possible advanced practice nursing roles and work duties, as well as the impact that such roles have had, emanating from research results. In systematic reviews and international evaluations, researchers find that nurses working in advanced roles provide a high quality of care. The advanced practice nurse workforce in primary care is evolving worldwide. One international trend is the increasing use of nurse role expansion as a strategy to improve access to health services; improve quality of care; provide new, time-intense services (primarily for patients with chronic conditions); and/or improve efficiency in service delivery.
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Fagerström, L.M. (2021). Advanced Practice Nursing in Primary Care. In: A Caring Advanced Practice Nursing Model . Advanced Practice in Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53555-1_9
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