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.
Demand for nurses will only grow post-pandemic, as will the rigors of the job, according to the paper published Tuesday from the National Academy of Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
There are almost 100 types of RNs, and when you add those specialties to nurse practitioners (NP), clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) and more, you end up with hundreds of different careers and specialties within the field of nursing.
Tasked with coming up with a policy proposal for a graduate school class, Juliette Carr originally thought her idea might be too simple. She wanted the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children benefits to be redeemable at farmers markets in Vermont just like those associated with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards.
The Louisiana House of Representatives has paved the way for nurse practitioners to practice independently of doctors, approving a bill Wednesday to keep in place an emergency executive order that Gov. John Bel Edwards issued earlier in the pandemic
Opioid addicts seeking treatment will have more choices following a decision by the Biden administration to relax rules on a popular drug therapy.
