Purpose The purpose of this paper is to lay out how advanced practitioner development
occurs in New Zealand primary health care settings. The paper specifically focuses on …

This paper highlights the parallels between the journey to prescribing for nurse practitioners
when the role was initially introduced in New Zealand and the journey now towards …

Ongoing advocacy and action over the past two decades have resulted in a broad and
permissive scope of NP practice in New Zealand. As numbers of NPs rise, the potential of …

Internationally, health workforce redesign provides a means to cope with an increasing
demand for health services. The development of advanced practitioner professions provides …

At a time when healthcare is experiencing a global shortage of nurses, and safety culture
permeates hospitals compounding the challenges in caring for patients, nurses are …

Over two decades ago the Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing (the Taskforce)(Ministry of
Health, 1998) made recommendations to the Minister of Health (the Honourable Bill English) …

Nothing in nursing occurs in isolation from what's happening in the world at large. Look at
the way the current COVID-19 pandemic has turned the spotlight on nurses' work. By …

Nursing, like life itself, should be positioned within an underlying philosophy, which for me,
has always commenced with the 'spirit'or 'essence'that motivates all nursing actions. This …

What has been laid bare by Wilkinson (2008a, 2008b) is the grim struggle for power and
control within nursing. She describes tension between a discourse of autonomy and a …

Jill Wilkinson's analysis (2008a, 2008b) illuminated how the fundamental tensions in
polarised discourses within nursing impacted on the work of the 1998 Taskforce and were …