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The advanced practice nurse and integration of complementary and alternative medicine: emerging policy issues.

Denner SS

Anesthesia Department, Memorial Hospital, York, PA, USA. Stoldenn@yahoo.com

This article highlights the emerging discipline and evolving policy issues surrounding integration of Complementary and Alternative Medicine into mainstream healthcare, focusing on the potentially influential role of the advanced practice nurse. Current aspects of education, credentialing, scope of practice, risk management, the healthcare marketplace, and innovative research designs are presented.

Published 1 May 2007 in Holist Nurs Pract, 21(3): 152-9.
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