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,...
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...
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...
By CATHY DYSON THE FREE LANCE–STAR If Marsha Stonehill’s patients aren’t comfortable talking in her office, she may suggest they go outside for a walk. “Or we can sit by the water or even go out in the kayak,” she said. Stonehill is a psychiatric nurse...
By Bingui Huang When you go to a doctor’s office for a stomachache, sore throat or back pain, it’s becoming more likely that the person treating you won’t be a physician but a nurse practitioner. Even Dr. Thomas Whalen, chief medical officer for Lehigh Valley...
By Tom Corwin, Clinic Run By Nurses Opens in Augusta, augustachronicle.com Augusta University President Brooks Keel walked past the ribbon and up to College of Nursing Dean Lucy Marion. “You’ve been looking forward to this for a few days?” he said jokingly. “A few...
