es are being marketed to consumers (Soehren & Schumann, 1994, pp. 123-127). The nurse-managed clinic, whether under institutional control or under the control of a nurse practitioner, represents the greatest opportunity for the marketing of nursing services to consumers.
Economic, Political, Ethical, and Legal Issues Affecting the Role of the Nurse Practitioner
Traditional acts of medical care in the contemporary period increasingly are overlapping with the functions of CNSs, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives (Hohman & vander Woude, 1993, p. 617). This overlapping of functions is changing the ways in which health care is delivered.
The role of the nurse practitioner has been evolving from a medical to a nursing orientation since the inception of role in 1955 (Thibodeau & Hawkins, 1994, pp. 205-218). As a resu
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