Nurse TV: Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Nurse TV is an Australian community television show made by nurses for nurses. Nurse TV aims to educate the public about the role of the nurse in the 21st century.

The following segment is about a Nurse Practitioner working in the emergency department at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide.

To learn more about Nurse TV, visit our website at http://www.nursetv.com.au/

© Waterbyrd Filmz 2006

Category:

Education

Tags:

• health
• nurse
• nursing
• Australia
• Australian
• practitioner
• Lyell
• Mcewin
• Hospital
• A&E
• ED
• ER
• emergency

[beeceekay]

@Tcareyful Also Australian Nurses generally wear business shirts and business pants or skirts in most areas except Theatre or Burns. The Shirts are usually colour coded depending on the nurse, usually red are NPs, black are CSCs, navy are RNs and green are ENs :)

[TNFlightNurse]

The Nurse Practitioner program I completed was a dual FNP/ACNP program. I went back later for my post-masters as an ACNP-Intensivist.

[Tcareyful]

@badermax: This is a Nurse Practitioner, who (despite sharing a common name with RNs) has a role that is much more comparable to a doctor. Because of this, they dress in "Dr" clothes, which tend to be business formal. I hope this helped!

[hetnerd]

I am 20 years old I just graduated half way to a LPN. I am in college in my 2ed year I know I want to go into health care. I am debating to go for a nurse or doctor.

[Tcareyful]

@badermax

Because nurse practitioners hold advanced degrees in nursing, they perform many of the same tasks as doctors. As such, they wear the same attire. I hope this helps.

[Tcareyful]

@bedermax-

The man featured in this video is a nurse practitioner, which, despite its name, is actually between a nurse and a doctor. While the NP is a liscenced RN (registered nurse), he takes on a role more similar to a doctor in the ER where he might order, and as stated in the video, interpret diagnostic testing. Because of this unique role, in most situations, NPs dress much as doctors would: in "dress" attire. I hope this sufficiently answered your question!

[embroidnurse]

He needs to take his watch off and wear protective clothing.

[badermax]

why isn't he wearing proper nursing scrubs and hospital attire?

[ANIMEGIRL385]

@lovelynurse10 lol thats cool :PP

I have changed my mind about the MP thing. I was talking to a senior nurse who was training me in manual handling and he told me that being an NP in Australia is the worst thing ever and that we don't have that much more freedom than a standard RN does. I will keep my options open for what I want to specialise in however I will work as an RN on thewards for a few years regardless. Best of luck with your course :)))

[M3L4MP0]

@lovelynurse10 Better (for me)! Are you sure you work in the U.S. and not in Italy? :) The situation you describe is typical of Italian hospital!

I still think the U.S. situation is very different from one state to another, right?!