Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) are registered nurses (RN) who serve as health care providers in specialty or primary care with the oversight of a doctor (MD). Think of a family physician and one may get the idea of what a family nurse does. Family Nurse Practitioners assist patients at a...

The model of Dr. Patricia Benner implies that nurses develop their skills and expertise over time through building up their educational base and gaining more experience of interaction with diverse patients in different contexts. Some professional experiences can be so significant and insightful as to transform the outlook of nurses...

With the growing scope of the diabetes problem, questions arise as to how nurses could assist patients with diabetes in maintaining an adequate level of health and wellbeing. The PICOT question developed for this work is "Does nurse-provided telephone support in elderly diabetic patients improve consistency in maintaining glucose levels...

It is vital to state that the identification of a research problem leads to the formulation of a research question, which is key to investigating a particular phenomenon (Maidl, Leske & Garcia, 2014). Although it is difficult to identify a clinical research question, this paper has developed one regarding the...

In determining the best practices to be adopted in nursing practice, there are various factors that are taken into consideration. This is because various sources of information are attributed to various levels of evidence. It is important to determine the credibility of the information because it is applied as part...