Showing posts with label nurse practitioners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurse practitioners. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2015

INQRI Advisor to Lead Study on Nurses’ Impact

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A new survey of more than 250,000 registered nurses (RNs) will help to generate evidence about how nurses impact the outcomes of their patie...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

States Benefit from Increased Autonomy for Nurses

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States that allow Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to practice independently saw an improvement in health outcomes for patients a...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Government Report Shows Increase of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care

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After declining for two decades, the rate of recently licensed nurse practitioners (NPs) joining the primary care workforce is moving upwar...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Expanding Scope of Practice for NPs could save California nearly $2 Billion

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Over the next 10 years, California could improve patients access to health care and save $1.8 billion in medical costs if nurse practitione...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Nursing Profession in 2014

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Top nursing leaders make predictions of nursing trends to watch for in 2014, based on what has been happening in the field over the past yea...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Could Alternate Primary Health Care Centers Mitigate the Anticipated Physician Shortage?

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A new study from the INQRI-coordinated Future of Nursing National Research Agenda , featured in the November issue of Health Affairs , finds...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

INQRI Study Shows Retail Clinics are Convenient, Cost-Effective, Provide Quality Care

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A new INQRI-funded study shows that retail clinics can reduce costs when Nurse Practioners (NPs) are allowed to practice independently, pot...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Article: States with Least Restrictive Regs on NP Practice Have Largest Increase in Primary Care Delivered by NPs

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In a new Health Affairs article, Yong-Fang Kuo and colleagues present recent findings which demonstrate that states with the least restrict...
Monday, July 8, 2013

NP/Physician Teams Improve Outcomes

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A recent study at two primary care facilities in California focused on 1,084 patients who were screened for four chronic geriatric condition...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Marketplace Health Care: The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now

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  This Marketplace podcast by Dan Gorenstein looks at the role of nurse practitioners as approximately 30 million Americans gain healt...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Removing Barriers to Practice & Care

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The Diane Rehm Show Discusses the Role of Nurse Practitioners In 18 states and the District of Columbia, nurse practitioners (NPs) are all...
Monday, March 18, 2013

New Report on Health Reform Highlights Role of Nurse Practitioners

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A new report by the National Institute for Health Care Reform digs into a topic of increasingly heated debate in health care — the role of...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Next WIHI on Jan. 10: Navigating New Care Teams with Nurse Practitioners

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WIHI is kicking off the new year, on January 10 (2p-3pET), with a show on Navigating New Care Teams with Nurse Practitioners. Discussion wil...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Unique Collaboration to Reduce ED Visits

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Midland Fire Department and Midland Memorial Hospital in West Texas are partnering in a unique way to try to reduce emergency department (ED...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Solving Many of the United States' Primary Care Challenges

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With the Affordable Care Act being upheld earlier this summer, there will a large flux on individuals with insurance coverage that require p...