Showing posts with label nurse practioners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurse practioners. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2013

Bread, Milk, Pneumonia Shot: How Retail Clinics are Changing the Landscape of Healthcare

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By Olga Yakusheva, Marquette University When your child gets a sudden fever, it’s bad enough. When your child gets a sudden fever on a Fri...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

New Survey: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners Disagree on Nurses’ Role in Providing Primary Care

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By Lori Melichar Gadkari, PhD, MA Lori Melichar Gadkari , PhD, MA, is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RW...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Sharp Increase Expected in Number of Nurse Practitioners

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According to a study published in the July edition of Medical Care, the total number of trained nurse practitioners is expected to grow 94% ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Advanced Practice Nurses Attempting to Make A Significant Impact in Michigan

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Yesterday, Alexandra Wilson Pecci, of HealthLeaders Media , discussed the current push by Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in Mic...
Monday, May 21, 2012

NPs Make Perfect Sense for Nursing Homes

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Last Friday, Steven Spearie, of the MetroWest Daily News , discussed the growing roles of nurse practitioners (NPs) in nursing homes. As we ...
Monday, May 14, 2012

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners To Roll Out Educational Campaign This Week

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Earlier this morning, Sarah Kliff, writing for The Washington Post's WonkBlog , detailed how the demand of health services is expected t...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Why Nurses Need More Authority

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Earlier this week, John Rowe, professor of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, wr...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Expanding Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Is Not Limited to Just the United States

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Over the weekend, Cory Hurley, reporting for The Western Star , detailed the continued progress of the Canadian Nurses Association campaign...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Beyond the Bedside: The Changing Role of Today's Nurses

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Earlier this morning, Charles Tiffin, provost of Capella University, wrote an Op-Ed piece for the HuffingtonPost detailing how the role of ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

New Jersey Training Nurses as Educators of Future Nurses

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Earlier today, Beth Fitzgerald, reporting for NJspotlight.com , detailed how New Jersey is making strides in meeting the challenges of a loo...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Bills in Missouri Legislature Would Aid Advanced Nurses

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Last week, Blythe Bernhard, of stltoday.com , reported that two new bills have been introduced in the Missouri legislature aimed at giving a...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Advanced-Practice Nurses Get More Prescribing Authority in Ohio

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At the end of February, we reported the introduction of legislation (SB-83) in the Ohio Senate that would expand Advanced-practice Nurses...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Nurse Practitioners Fight For More Independence, Doctors Resist

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Earlier this week, Stephanie Bouchard, Associate Editor of healthcarefinancenews.com , detailed the unsuccesful attempt by nurse practitione...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Northeast Florida Hospitals Reducing Readmissions With Nurse Intervention

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Yesterday, the Florida Times Union reported on the implementation of a new discharge intervention at St. Vincent’s HealthCare. The intervent...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Counting on Nurses to Fill New Jersey's Primary Care Gap

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During the holiday break, Patricia A. Barnett, Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey State Nurses Association & Institute for Nursin...
Friday, December 23, 2011

INQRI's Five Most Read Blogposts of 2011

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On behalf of the INQRI program staff and leadership team, we would like to wish all of you a safe and happy holiday & New Year. Below yo...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Nurse Practitioners Fill a Gap in Rural Health Care

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Over the weekend, Robert Joiner, a staff writer for the St. Louis Beacon , discussed how the demand for advanced practice RNs is expected to...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Hospitals Try To Control Readmissions, Even When It Hurts Profits

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Yesterday, Fred Mogul, of WNYC , in collaboration with NPR and Kaiser Health News , reported how hospitals nationwide have implemented a var...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Adding A Nurse Practitioner To Hospital Staff Can Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits

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With national nurse practitioner week coming to an end, we thought it would be appropriate to share with all of you research that demonstrat...
Monday, November 14, 2011

National Council of State Boards of Nursing Launches Interactive APRN 'Map'

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Earlier this morning, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) launched a new feature on their website that contains informat...