The Effectiveness of Emergency Nurse Practitioners: Length of time and the Quality of care in the Emergency Department

Abstract

Research in the field of health care management seeks to understand ways to increase overall efficiency by maximising the productivity of health professionals including nurses and doctors, in order to enhance the quality of health care. The role of nursing practitioners in delivering care has been especially considered as a means of addressing the gaps in access to highquality care. A rationale for the introduction of nursing practitioners in emergency care is to provide more efficient and quicker service to patients, thereby dealing with the issue of patient dissatisfaction. In-hospital care and, the emergency services were bound by certain key performance indicators which relate to the length of stay in emergency care. Given this, improving the skills and knowledge of emergency nurse practitioners is vitally important. This can be achieved by encouraging them to have extra courses concerned with the quality of emergency department care. This study aimed to investigate the impact of the emergency nurse practitioner’s role with the goal of decreasing the length of time spent on treatment but also increasing the health care quality delivered to the patient