The Clinical Instructor (CI) Intensive was first offered by the Duke University School of Nursing DUSONN) in 2008 for the purpose of helping our School's CIs – and CIs from other schools – better understand and effectively implement their roles as teachers in the clinical setting.
4 Thus, family caregivers' needs and how they implement their roles might change during the care receiver's illness trajectory.
Most stakeholders are satisfied with the nurse-led model of care; however most stakeholders also believe that, for the model to be successful, the scope of practice of the advanced practice nurses needed to be extended and the nurse practitioners must be supported to fully implement their roles: "Stakeholder 4: I think it's a safe model of care.
NPHCPs in this study identified a number of resources that would support them in effectively implementing their roles as teachers, including protected teaching time to decrease the pressure from competing clinical demands, acknowledgement of their responsibilities to their own profession learners, and access to appropriate space.
Since nurses are employed by GDPs, their employers' attitudes towards role-supplementation will influence the extent to which dental nurses can implement their extended role.
These role implementation variables were found to predict multiple caregiving-specific and generic outcomes, 17, 18 giving health care professionals new insights about how to assist family caregivers to effectively implement their caregiver role.
As she points out, state governments still have enormous clout, often in part because of their role in implementing federal programs, and influencing federal policy.
A shorter training on basics of tobacco control was also organized for nurse aides to enhance their role in implementing smoke-free policy in the hospital.
The regional networks described here and throughout this issue of Emerging Health Threats have gained interest among some scholars for their contributions to global health security, particularly for their role in implementing the International Health Regulations (2005) (2, 32).
The authors would like to acknowledge the ongoing assistance of the University of Delaware Physical Therapy Clinic staff for their role in implementing this study protocol as well as the Research Core at the University of Delaware for their contribution to this study.
