By Barbara Miller, Nurse Practitioner Bill Passes State Senate, Observer-Reporter.com A bill sponsored by state Senator Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll, has passed the upper chamber, aimed at modernizing the professional nursing law to permit qualified Advanced Practice...
By Lisa Mullen, MSN, CRNA, Your view: It’s time to recognize the importance of CRNAs, on TimesLeader.com Certified registered nurse anesthetists are the best-kept secret in health care. We’re usually the last people patients see before a procedure begins and the first...
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Source: Veterans Affairs Research Communications Veterans Affairs patients with diabetes have similar health outcomes regardless of whether their primary provider is a physician, nurse practitioner (NP), or physician...
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...
“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...
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,...
