The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 169-175 , March 2009

Rural-Urban Practice Patterns of Nurse Practitioners in Washington State

  • Louise Kaplan

      Affiliations

    • Louise Kaplan, PhD, ARNP, is an assistant professor and coordinates the family nurse practitioner program at Washington State University in Vancouver. She also maintains a clinical practice in the rural community of Elma, WA
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  • Marie-Annette Brown

      Affiliations

    • Marie-Annette Brown, PhD, ARNP, FAAN, is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she is the coordinator of the DNP committee and the Group Health Endowed Professor in Chronic Illness Care.
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  • C. Holly Andrilla

      Affiliations

    • C. Holly Andrilla, MS, is an investigator and biostatistician at WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies.
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  • L. Gary Hart

      Affiliations

    • L. Gary Hart, PhD, is a professor of public health and director of the Rural Health Office, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, at the University of Arizona.

References 

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  5. Personal Communication. Teresa Corrado. Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. June 10, 2008.
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  7. Washington State Department of Health  . Rural Washington: Closing health disparities . Available at: http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/ocrh/har/FactHealthDisparities.pdf 2007; Accessed February 7, 2008.
  8. Goolsby MJ . AANP national nurse practitioner sample survey, part 1: an overview . J Am Acad Nurse Pract . 2005;17:337–341
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  11. American Medical Association  . Reference Committee B (Legislation): Resolution 214 . Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/18587.html Accessed November 15, 2008.

 In compliance with national ethical guidelines, the authors report no relationships with business or industry that would pose a conflict of interest.

PII: S1555-4155(08)00665-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2008.12.010

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 169-175 , March 2009

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