Background
Nurse practitioners are an essential part of the health care team because of their training regarding diagnosis, order and interpretation of medical images and other diagnostic tests. Nurse practitioners are also qualified to prescribe medication and other therapeutic measures and to perform specific medical procedures (Donald, Martin-Misener, Carter, Donald, Kaasalainen, Wickson-Griffiths et al., 2013). Despite this variety of functions, nurse practitioners tend to have more time an a special set of skills available to better take care of patients, when compared to General Practitioners (Albers-Heitner, Lagro-Janssen, Joore, Berghmans, Nieman, Venema et al., 2011). Plus, some evidence indicates that, interventions led ...