The Federal Trade Commission encouraged Kansas' and Ohio's legislatures on Monday to pass bills that would allow advanced practice registered nurses to treat patients without physician oversight. Both ...

Scope of practice, who can do what to whom, is a contentious area. There is fighting between those with large scopes of practice, such as physicians, and those with a lesser range, like advanced nurse ...

A working paper that's likely to spur debate found that nurse practitioners (NPs) used more resources and had worse patient outcomes compared with physicians in the emergency department (ED), and will ...

TORONTO, Nov. 6, 2023 /CNW/ - People in Ontario will have faster access to care and will be better served now that the role of registered nurses (RN) will be expanded to prescribe medications ...

There is a need to address the high costs and often poor quality of healthcare in the United States. Many studies show that nurse practitioners (NPs) provide safe and high-quality care when compared ...

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ([email protected]), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Rachel Willard-Grace, University of California San Francisco. Caring for people with ...

The 16-course, 24-month M.S. in Nurse-Midwifery program is designed to prepare clinically competent nurse-midwives who provide family-centered health care at the full scope of practice.

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"Many state lawmakers understood the benefits of temporarily relaxing these restrictions as COVID-19 strained the healthcare system," writes Sally Pipes. "Freeing up physician assistants and nurse ...

Qualified registered nurses will soon be able to write prescriptions for medications, in a bid to ease pressure on a stressed ...