Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
Nurse practitioner/paramedic trailblazer in community
Wednesday 11 March 2020, 04:30 AM

College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ executive director, Professor Jenny Carryer and nurse practitioner Jackie Clapperton
COLLEGE OF NURSES AOTEAROA NZ NURSE PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR
Nurse practitioners add increased medical skill and focus to their extensive education in nursing. As such they offer a critical point of difference and a vital addition to primary healthcare service delivery across a wide spectrum of locations. We especially value and celebrate their attention to issues of equity and vulnerability
WINNER
JACKIE CLAPPERTON
In what is thought to be a world first, Jackie Clapperton is forging a novel path for nurse practitioners by combinin