From: Integrating nurse practitioners into primary care: policy considerations from a Canadian province
Participant Occupation/ Affiliation | Nursing Leader III | Policy Maker VI | PCN-Member Family Physicians II&XV | Primary Care NPs I, VII, XI, XIV | PCN Administrators XII& IX | Patients X & VIII Patient Advocacy Group V | NP Leader IV | Medical Association Leader XIII |
A senior representative at the province’s professional and regulatory body, (CARNA)a | A civil servant from a division of the ministry of health | Two Family physicians that work in primary care | Four NPs that work in primary care | Two PCN Administrators | Patient advocates from the province and a patient who had received care from an NP in the community | A senior executive at the province’s NP Assoc. (NPAA)b | A senior representative of the province’s professional and regulatory body, (AMA)c | |
Number Interviewed | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |