Since the inception of the nurse practitioner (NP ... care to people in need of comprehensive healthcare, NPs use caring theory in their everyday practice. The purpose of this paper is to describe ...

Although nurses traditionally see themselves as holistic in their practice, young NPs may embrace the medical model as their first clinical guide. Brown and Olshansky studied the first ...

First-year nurses often have difficulties while bridging the gap between educational theory and required workplace practice.