Donna Frost

The critical creative collaborative inquiries in action 143 5 Table 5 . 4 Members of the NPI: age at commencement of the inquiry, years qualified as an NP, years of experience as RN (before or during training to be NP), work setting during NPI and usual form of patient contact. NPI member Age in years at beginning of NPI Years qualified as NP at beginning of NPI Years worked as RN or NP in training before qualifying as NP Work setting Usual form of patient contact Margaret (female) 35 3 10 Primary care, in a general prac - tice clinic Consultations by appoint - ment; 10 - 20 min. Home visits Dylan (male) 40 3 7 Cardio thoracic surgery, inpa - tient ward Admissions, ward rounds, follow-up visit, when paged Pieter (male) 52 8 22 Gastro-enter - ology, inpa - tient ward Admissions, ward rounds, follow-up visit, when paged Anna (female) 31 2 8 Breast can - cer centre, outpatient clinic Outpatients appointment; 15 - 30 min. Group meet - ings Aafje (female) 36 5 6 Neurology, specifically stroke outpatient clinic Outpatients appointment; 20 - 30 min. Lilian (female) 40 4 6 Gerontology, specifically memory clinic, outpatients Outpatients appoint - ment; 30 min. Group meetings Wendy (female) 41 4 12 Urology, spe - cifically male outpatients Outpatients appointment; 20 - 30 min. Range 31 - 52 2 - 8 6 - 22 Mean 39 4 10 Median 40 4 8