New Jersey expands authority advanced practice nurses by allowing independent prescribing and permanent independent practice ...

About 23 percent of American adults live with a mental health condition, but only around 50 percent of these individuals ...

Advanced practice registered nurses are earning more than $150,000, a new study indicates, with pay for the profession soaring as nurses in all fields take on more responsibilities once the sole ...

In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses’ ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit ...

New Jersey is training world-class advanced practice nurses — and then watching them leave. Rutgers nursing leaders explain ...

Advanced nurse practitioners are ‘not a substitute for medical practitioners’ but a ‘welcome and vital role’, the nursing ...

The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

Over the past few decades, a global trend has emerged in which the role of the nurse has been advanced and expanded on the basis of new scientific and clinical knowledge and on greater use of ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...