Jun 5, 2019 | News Stories
By Madeline Morr After evaluating patients’ experiences of and satisfaction with the various aspects of care for chest pain received from advanced nurse practitioners (APNs), researchers found that direct APN to APN referral provides patients with expert assessment...
May 30, 2019 | News Stories
“Let her sleep, for when she awakens, she will move mountains.” When Robyn Woidtke MSN, RN, RPSGT shared her favorite sleep-related quote with SleepApnea.org, you could tell she’s a nurse. Members of the nursing profession push obstacles out...
May 29, 2019 | News Stories
By DocWire News Featured Reading There is a small but growing movement to create formal primary care nurse practitioner (NP) residency programs, similar to those for physicians, where the effort is geared to help them transition to practice. Unlike physicians,...
May 28, 2019 | News Stories
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen, As Nurse Practitioners Try To Shake Free Of Doctors, Kansas Physicians Resist, on kcur.org Stephanneth Adams plans to leave Kansas. The nurse practitioner landed in the state’s rural southwest — where she saw patients in Garden City,...
May 16, 2019 | News Stories
Rachel Tanner-Smith from Nashville, Texas was awarded the RCA 2018 Scholarship. Rachel is currently enrolled in a Master of Science in Nursing program, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner track. When she graduates, Rachel plans to work in an outpatient...
May 16, 2019 | News Stories
Thanks to the state’s embrace of Obamacare, California has expanded health insurance to millions of uninsured residents over the last five years. But as the number of people covered has grown, so has the strain on the doctors, clinics and hospitals that must respond...
