Nurse recounts deployment during pandemic
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It takes a village to raise a child well, as the African proverb goes, and nurse practitioner Tia Knight-Forbes says her village is Amityville.
A Louisiana university has a $1.9 million federal grant to train mental health nurse practitioners.
Two bills, which would allow medical professionals who aren’t doctors greater latitude in serving patients, are advancing in the Senate. Taken together, the bills would help reduce health care costs by freeing up pharmacists, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners to perform more basic services.
When you’re pregnant, you need more than an annual visit to a primary care professional to stay healthy. You need prenatal care. This means a lot more visits to a doctor, midwife, or nurse practitioner. If you don’t have health insurance and are worried about how to pay for prenatal care, there are many organizations that offer low-cost or even free care during pregnancy.
Residents of the Fluvanna County area have a new health care facility at their disposal. The brainchild of nurse practitioner Amy Beyer, the Fluvanna Health Clinic opened last month and offers primary care, sports and work physicals, telehealth, sick visits and lab work.
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by two members of the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Nursing.
A controversial bill that would allow nurse practitioners to practice without a CPA or Collaborate Practice Agreement, is currently being considered by lawmakers in Baton Rouge.
House Bill 495, now in our Legislature, would give nurse practitioners full practice authority without physician supervision.
Meghan Wenzinger, a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, recalled her mother—who is a nurse practitioner—receiving a letter from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last spring, asking for extra health care support for COVID-19 patients in New York City.
