The Shenandoah Valley Has Gained their First Nurse Practitioner with an Autonomous License
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) — House Bill 793 was passed by Virginia’s General Assembly earlier this year and signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam at the start of April. It went into effect on April 9, 2019. The bill allows nurse practitioners in Virginia to...
MGMA Conference 2019
If you missed our CEO, David Wolfe, speak at the MGMA conference in Austin today on ‘Recruiting the Future of Medicine’, that’s no problem! We can send you the content. Just email Dorothy Blalock at dorothy@npnow.com and we can mail you the book or email you the...
Fourth time a charm? In Pennsylvania, nurse practitioners rally for bill they say will expand health care access
Facing potential shortages in physicians for an aging population, state Sen. Camera Bartolotta offered up a simple solution to address the gap going forward. “We only need to do what every patient does when faced with a health crisis — call a nurse,” Bartolotta,...
In California, doctors have blocked nurse practitioners from expanding care. Could that change?
Nurse practitioners, who undergo more training than registered nurses, have been lobbying the Legislature for years to care for patients on their own without a physician’s approval. They’ve argued this change in state law would ensure the state’s aging population has...