"Nurse Practitioners" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Nurses who are specially trained to assume an expanded role in providing medical care under the supervision of a physician.
| Descriptor ID |
D009722
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.526.485.650.640 N02.360.650.640
|
| Concept/Terms |
Nurse Practitioners- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurse Practitioner
- Practitioner, Nurse
- Practitioners, Nurse
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Nurse Practitioners".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Nurse Practitioners".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nurse Practitioners" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nurse Practitioners" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Nurse Practitioners" by people in Profiles.
-
Personalized Goal Attainment in Dementia Care: Measuring What Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers Want. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 11; 66(11):2120-2127.
-
Quality of Care Provided by a Comprehensive Dementia Care Comanagement Program. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 08; 64(8):1724-30.
-
The contribution of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners toward rural primary care: findings from a 13-state survey. Med Care. 2014 Jun; 52(6):549-56.
-
Follow-up after a failed newborn hearing screen: a quality improvement study. ORL Head Neck Nurs. 2012; 30(3):9-13.
-
Potential determinants of prescribers' drug-drug interaction knowledge. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2008 Dec; 4(4):355-66.
-
Prescribers' knowledge of and sources of information for potential drug-drug interactions: a postal survey of US prescribers. Drug Saf. 2008; 31(6):525-36.
-
Should childless NPs cover? Adv Nurse Pract. 1999 Nov; 7(11):24.
-
Male erectile dysfunction: a guide for clinical management. J Am Acad Nurse Pract. 1999 Mar; 11(3):117-23.
-
Psychiatric-mental health nursing: an Iowa update. J Iowa Med Soc. 1982 Feb; 72(2):62-5.