TODAY'S TIPSHEET
                                 University of Virginia

                                    Oct. 6, 1997



        Item: Highly trained nurse practitioners are beginning to assume 
primary care responsibilities formerly handled by doctors. (New York Times, 
Sept. 30, 1997)

        UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EXPERT

        % Jeanette Lancaster, dean of the U.Va. School of Nursing and 
professor of nursing, chaired a state legislative task force that recommended 
physicians and nurse practitioners collaborate to address primary care needs 
in underserved rural areas of the state. A fellow of the American Academy of 
Nursing, Lancaster chairs the committee on graduate nursing education for the 
China medical board and the board of the Virginia Statewide Area Health 
Education Center. She may be reached at (804) 924-0063.

       % Julie C. Novak, professor of nursing and director of the primary 
care nurse practitioner program. A primary care nurse practitioner, Novak 
chairs the division of family health and is president of the National 
Certification Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses. Contact
Novak at (804) 924-0130.

       % Dr. W. Kline Bolton, professor and  head of the division of 
nephrology. His division makes extensive use of nurse practitioners to 
examine patients in clinics and to manage the care of dialysis patients. 
To contact Bolton, call (804) 924-5125.

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