Journal of Hospital & Medical Management

IMPACT OF ROLE TRANSITION OF FILIPINO HEALTH PRACTITIONERS FROM CLINICAL TO ADVANCED PRACTICE SETTINGS

Background: This study sought to understand the impact of the role transition of Filipino health practitioners from clinical practice to more advanced roles and what will be the effects or outcomes to the hospital and health care system. Objectives: This study aims to provide an understanding to the reasons on why clinical practitioners accept the conditions of shifting to more advanced practice roles. Eligibility criteria: Criteria for considering studies should be studies that mention role transition/or shifting to advanced practice roles such as administrative and management roles, the ones mostly done in the Philippines or at least in Southeast Asia, published from 2010 until present and used the national and/or international locale using the English language. While for excluding studies, if they are published more than 10 years ago, not done in the Philippines or at least in Southeast Asia, published as case reports only and not journal-indexed and used national and/or international locale with language other than English. Results: There were 22 articles related to the topic, and 4 of them are found by citation matching for PubMed, and 16 articles were identified in sage journals. However, after carefully checking the data, only 2 articles were included as they are applicable with at least 3 of the criteria; the criteria of the locale was not checked as there were no mentioned setting in the 2 articles seen in PubMed, while in sage journals, 0 articles were found upon using the filters of the criteria.

Author(s): Dr. Ma Patricia Angela P Musni

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