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 ...

Advanced Practice Nursing: The future is now It is time to upgrade our image, and unify our profession. Do not wait to be a part of health care's evolution. As America moves forward since the Supreme ...

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 ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...

Sparrow, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives, voted to form a union within the ...

Carole R. Myers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is a University of Tennessee College of Nursing professor with a specialty in health policy. Sharon Davis, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC, is a clinical associate professor in the ...

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 ...

I have been a certified registered nurse anesthetist, a type of advanced practice registered nurse, for more than 20 years and I'm a retired commander in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, where I provided ...

Advanced practice providers reached a second tentative agreement with Legacy Health on Tuesday, according to the Oregon Nurses Association.

Nursing remains practical and hands-on. However, it is also strengthened by conceptual and theoretical knowledge applied artfully and scientifically. The practice of advanced nursing requires a higher ...