The Advanced Practice in Endoscopy Nursing (APEN) sub-project was undertaken in response to a national trend of increasing demand for endoscopy services, in part due to the implementation of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. The aim was to train nurses to perform endoscopic procedures previously only undertaken in Australia by doctors. Although new to Australia, nurse endoscopists are well established in the United Kingdom. Recently published evidence based on a systematic review of the literature indicates that nurses can achieve similar results for efficacy and safety to those achieved by doctors
On questioning, lead clinicians were in favour of nurse endoscopists performing diagnostic OGD (TH=6...
Traditionally tertiary education sector course providers have engaged superficially with industry pa...
Background: Screening by using colonoscopy is recommended in many countries to reduce the risk of de...
Increasing demands for health care globally often lead to discussions about expanding the involvemen...
The challenge to meet ever increasing healthcare needs of an ageing and expanding population who exp...
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Increasing demands for health care globally often lead to discussions ...
Eight organisations received funding through the Health Workforce Australia (HWA) Expanded Scopes of...
Increased demand for colonoscopy procedures has led to the introduction of nurse endoscopist in Aust...
Pressures on endoscopy units are increasing as a result of the Global Rating Scheme, the 2 and 18 we...
AIMS: To describe the process and explore the feasibility of training a colorectal nurse in Hong Kon...
Spencer and Ready published the first description of nonmedically qualified endoscopists in 1977 [Di...
Nowadays, endoscopy is considered one of the most widely used methods of examination. It enables not...
AIM: To examine the available evidence on safety, competency and cost-effectiveness of nursing staff...
Background and study aims Limited international data have shown that non-physicians can safely perfo...
Background: Extended Practice Nurse roles have been initiated in various forms in many Australian Em...
On questioning, lead clinicians were in favour of nurse endoscopists performing diagnostic OGD (TH=6...
Traditionally tertiary education sector course providers have engaged superficially with industry pa...
Background: Screening by using colonoscopy is recommended in many countries to reduce the risk of de...
Increasing demands for health care globally often lead to discussions about expanding the involvemen...
The challenge to meet ever increasing healthcare needs of an ageing and expanding population who exp...
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Increasing demands for health care globally often lead to discussions ...
Eight organisations received funding through the Health Workforce Australia (HWA) Expanded Scopes of...
Increased demand for colonoscopy procedures has led to the introduction of nurse endoscopist in Aust...
Pressures on endoscopy units are increasing as a result of the Global Rating Scheme, the 2 and 18 we...
AIMS: To describe the process and explore the feasibility of training a colorectal nurse in Hong Kon...
Spencer and Ready published the first description of nonmedically qualified endoscopists in 1977 [Di...
Nowadays, endoscopy is considered one of the most widely used methods of examination. It enables not...
AIM: To examine the available evidence on safety, competency and cost-effectiveness of nursing staff...
Background and study aims Limited international data have shown that non-physicians can safely perfo...
Background: Extended Practice Nurse roles have been initiated in various forms in many Australian Em...
On questioning, lead clinicians were in favour of nurse endoscopists performing diagnostic OGD (TH=6...
Traditionally tertiary education sector course providers have engaged superficially with industry pa...
Background: Screening by using colonoscopy is recommended in many countries to reduce the risk of de...