As advanced practice nurses gain ground in their battle for autonomy, the Missouri State Medical Association has taken a firm stand against APRN's independent practice authority. In March, a ...

In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses’ ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit ...

Over the past few decades, a global trend has emerged in which the role of the nurse has been advanced and expanded on the basis of new scientific and clinical knowledge and on greater use of ...

Advanced practice providers are highly knowledgeable medical professionals who are part of a health care team and play a key ...

The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

A new federal rule has quietly made nursing education financially inaccessible. The Department of Education recently locked ...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s call for the General Assembly to expand the scope of advanced practice nurses highlights the importance of improving access to quality health care for Connecticut residents by ...

An overwhelming majority of MGB Cancer Institute Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants seek a collective voice through the MNA ...

Mississippi nurse-midwives sue the state, claiming restrictive laws hinder their practice and worsen maternal health care.

Every so often, Megan Conner, a nurse anesthetist in Greenville said she sees a patient who’s driven for hours to come for a screening colonoscopy but who instead has to be sent to the emergency ...