Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the United States, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing along with other nursing authorities and organizations recommend the use of the term and acronym advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) as described in the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation, Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education.
Some states allow NPs to have full practice authority; however, in other states, a written collaborative or supervisory agreement with a physician is legally required for practice. [ 5 ] [ 34 ] Autonomous practice was introduced in the 1980s, mostly in states facing a physician shortage or that struggled to find enough healthcare providers to ...
As healthcare demands have increased in the United States due to an aging population, a physician shortage and the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 there has been a shift toward more independence in practice for professionals such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and dental ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) is an agreement that allows mutual recognition (reciprocity) of a nursing license between member U.S. states ("compact states"). Enacted into law by the participating states, the NLC allows a nurse who is a legal resident of and possesses a nursing license in a compact state (their "home state") to practice in any of the other compact states (the "remote ...
Beyond population foci, APRNs can focus on and become certified in a specialty. [1] The model establishes education standards for programs that prepare APRNs as well accreditation of certification boards. Individual state boards of nursing have either adopted or in the process of adopting the model for APRN regulation.
Add to that the state’s rules for “precanvassing” mail ballots, and the commonwealth was uniquely poised to produce slow returns. Your vote: GOP congressmen trying to compel Pa. to perform ...
Tri-State Pain Institute, at 5442 Peach St. in Millcreek Township, has settled a federal lawsuit in which a nurse claimed she was sexually harassed and discriminated against at the clinic when she ...