Showing posts with label scope of practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scope of practice. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Expanding Opportunities for Rural Communities to Get Quality Care

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by Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Adviser for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation   The full version of this post is on the R...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Nurses Succeeding in Bone Marrow Biopsy Program

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A nurse-led bone marrow aspiration/biopsy program is providing evidence that the use of procedurists is good for patient outcomes and good f...
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...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

INQRI Brief: Non-Physicians Can Address Primary Care Shortage

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A pending primary care shortage may be best addressed by implementing promising strategies that fully utilize non-physician health care prof...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Supreme Court Ruling in Federal Trade Commission Case Will Have Broad Implications for Scope of Practice Regulations

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By Joanne Spetz, PhD La st week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Tr...
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, February 6, 2014

INQRI in the News

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The Healthcare Economist blog provides an analysis of the INQRI-funded study " Scope-Of-Practice Laws For Nurse Practitioners Limit Cos...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Are Retail Clinics the Future of Health Care?

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In " How Our Faith in Supermarkets, Nurses and Pharmacists Can Drive Health ," health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn reports that tw...
Friday, December 6, 2013

INQRI In the News

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New guidelines from the Joint Commission highlight the key role of nurses in preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLA...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Policy Research to Inform Discussion on Scope of Practice

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Alex Hoyt, PhD, RN, a Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing Assistant Professor is using his rece...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

ANA Recommends APRNs be Included Providers in Plans on Insurance Exchanges

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The American Nurses Association (ANA) has recommended to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that health insurers looking...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

New Human Capital Blog Post Regarding the Shortage of Primary Care Providers

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A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine features two examples of policy analysis focused on the implications of expanding nur...
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...
Friday, May 3, 2013

A Broader Role for the Federal Trade Commission in Regulating APRN Nursing Scope of Practice

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By Safiyyah Okeye, BSN, RN, Jill Vanek, BSN, MSN, and Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN  The 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “Future of...
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...
Friday, October 19, 2012

New Jersey Nurses... APNs Sharing the Burden

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Last week, we shared the first in a two part series on nursing in New Jersey published on New Jersey Spotlight . The second part of the se...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

National Midwifery Week

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As noted in the Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health , many states have not made changes to...
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...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Report: Higher Payments Are No Cure For Doctor Shortage

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Earlier this week, Jordan Rau, reporting for Kaiser Health News , detailed a recent report by the Institute of Medicine that recommended tha...
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...