Outpatient community clinic patients' perceptions regarding nurse practitioner services.

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Hunter, Troy Darren.
Title Outpatient community clinic patients' perceptions regarding nurse practitioner services.
Date 2003-05
Description Perceptions and comfort levels toward nurse practitioner services were measured by questionnaire responses to patients of community clinics in the University of Utah Health Science Center system. This research was organized in a pre-experimental design and used purposive sampling techniques to acquire a sample that was roughly half nurse practitioner patients and half physician patients. Ninety-one questionnaires were completed in the waiting rooms of the clinics while patients waited for their appointments. Questions were based on the four Ps of marketing: (a) product, (b) price, (c) placement, and (d) promotion. Findings included a significant relationship between patients claiming to be familiar with nurse practitioner services and patients' comfort level toward those services. Nurse practitioner services found to be uncomfortable by the respondents were (a) prescribing medication for depression, (b) prescribing narcotics, and (c) managing musculoskeletal injures. The use of marketing to enhance the public's perception of nurse practitioner services was also discussed.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Utah; Demographics
Subject MESH Patients; Nurse Practitioners
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Outpatient community clinic patients' perceptions regarding nurse practitioner services." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Outpatient community clinic patients' perceptions regarding nurse practitioner services." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RT2.5 2003 .H85.
Rights Management © Troy Darren Hunter.
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,135
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sq9f14