A letter published on May 4 misrepresented and inaccurately described the consequences of House Bill 495. This bill would give nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives full practice authority ...
Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. On Monday, the bill to expand scope-of-practice for nurse ...
Rules that allow for this expanded scope without requiring physician collaboration vary by state. Currently in the US, 27 ...
Nurse practitioners could care for patients and prescribe medications without a doctor’s supervision under a bill that passed the California Senate Thursday. Democratic Senator Ed Hernandez has tried ...
A hotly debated bill that would allow nurse practitioners to do what they are trained to do without supervision by a doctor was approved by the state Senate last week. A hotly debated bill that would ...
Gail Sadler, a nurse practitioner, provides a wide array of primary-care services at her private practice in Carrollwood, Fla., a community that has been buffeted for years by a physician shortage.
Nurse practitioners, like other healthcare workers, have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They helped battle a virus they at first knew little about and saw its disparate impact on ...
Nearly half the states allow broad practice authority for nurse practitioners. Some of their limitations were also loosened in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. What restrictions, if any, do you ...
Sen. Ed Hernandez is again trying to change California law so nurse practitioners can do what they are trained for without supervision by a doctor. A similar effort died two years ago due to fierce ...
As of 2016, there were more than 222,000 nurse practitioners licensed in the United States, according to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ National Nurse Practitioner Database. Here are ...
New York will pass legislation this week as part of the state budget to expand the authority of nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice independently, Syracuse.com reports. The Nurse Practitioners ...