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Record W4409410417 · doi:10.12927/cjnl.2025.27550

Implementation of Registered Nurse Prescribers in Nova Scotia

2025· article· en· W4409410417 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Cindy MacQuarrie, Nancy Cashen, Sohani Welcher

Bibliographic record

VenueNursing leadership · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicNursing Roles and Practices
Canadian institutionsNova Scotia Health AuthorityIzaak Walton Killam Health CentreVictorian Order of Nurses
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNova scotiaNursingNova (rocket)Registered nursePsychologyNurse practitionersMedicinePolitical scienceSociologyHealth care

Abstract

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Registered nurse (RN) prescribing has been successfully implemented globally in various countries, yet it remains a relatively new practice in Canada. RN prescribers have the potential to improve role satisfaction and access to care; however, the implementation of the role is influenced by various change levers that shape its success and integration. This commentary offers perspectives from the Nova Scotia (NS) RN prescribing steering committee and shares the achievement that took place in NS when a learning health system approach was applied. Local experiences were systematically integrated, generating new knowledge with a focus on this new role and the expanded responsibilities of RNs in healthcare teams in NS.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.946
Threshold uncertainty score0.394

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.348
GPT teacher head0.509
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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