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Let Nurse Practitioners Expand Access

The Citizen's Voice | Apr 17 2019

Providing adequate access to medical care in rural and poor urban areas is one of the longest-running problems in U.S. health care, and Pennsylvania is a case in point. About 35 percent of state residents have limited access to primary care physicians. Read More

It’s time to expand choice and access to health care | Opinion

Tallahassee Democrat | Feb 26 2019

Florida now ranks among the states with the worst health care access in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report, besting only Mississippi and Alaska. Read More

Number Of Nurse Practitioners Surpasses 270,000

Forbes | Jan 29 2019

The number of licensed nurse practitioners has set another record, surpassing 270,000, new data shows. Read More

More nurses providing primary care where MDs in short supply

WHBL | Jan 08 2019

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests... Read More

Nurse Practitioners: Meeting the Needs of Rural Veterans

Daily Nurse | Dec 30 2018

VA strives to deliver high-quality, compassionate health care to Veterans across America. We’ve taken great strides to ensure patients living in rural areas have access to a range of care options to best meet their health care needs. Due to VA’s recent “scope of practice” laws—which grant advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) full practice authority... Read More

Nurse practitioner serves around the world

News-Press Now | Oct 07 2018

For the past three decades, Rachel Gunderson has journeyed around the world to serve those in need. The nurse practitioner has gone to places like Ecuador, Guatemala and most recently, Bangladesh... Read More

Nurse Practitioners Can Cure America’s Primary Care Shortage

RealClear Markets | Oct 06 2018

During the first week of October, America celebrates National Primary Care Week, honoring the difficult work that family physicians, pediatricians, and other primary care doctors do every day to provide routine medical care. But, unfortunately for us, there aren’t enough of them to care for our country’s growing medical needs... Read More

Nurse practitioner is a trailblazer with rheumatology practice

WNYT | Oct 02 2018

Rheumatology is a medical specialty focusing on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Most commonly, people with rheumatoid arthritis are treated by these specialists. However, finding care can be difficult as the number of patients is increasing as the number of doctors providing this care is shrinking. That's what makes a local nurse practitioner a unique trailblazer... Read More

Physician Practice Roundup—Congress may expand Sunshine Act to cover nurse practitioners…

Fierce Healthcare | Sep 27 2018

Congress is expected to finalize a new law that will expand the Sunshine Act and require drug companies and medical device manufacturers to disclose payments and gifts made to nurse practitioners and physician assistants... Read More

Nurse Practitioner Writes ‘Nola The Nurse’ Children’s Book Collection

Nurse.org | Sep 22 2018

Many of you were introduced to Dr. Scharmaine Lawson-Baker FNP, FAANP, FAAN in my previous article on how nurse practitioners are redefining affordable healthcare. In addition to being a renowned, award-winning nurse practitioner and entrepreneur she is also the author of the groundbreaking Nola the Nurse series... Read More

Nurse practitioners: A solution to America’s primary care crisis

American Enterprise Institute | Sep 19 2018

For the past few decades, the United States has not produced enough primary care physicians. Moreover, too few physicians practice in rural and medically underserved areas... Read More

California nurse practitioners face challenges in filling primary care gap, study shows

Becker's Hospital Review | Sep 06 2018

California's growing nurse practitioner workforce is essential to filling shortages of primary care physicians, but nurse practitioners are not located where they're needed most, according to a study published in Health Affairs... Read More

Nurse Practitioners provide viable primary care option

WIBW News | Aug 24 2018

If you’re sick and either don’t know well or don’t have a primary care physician, there are other options. “Nurse Practitioners are here to fill those shortages across the country,” said Joyce Knestrick with the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. “We have about 248,000 solutions as Nurse Practitioners to the country’s primary care need...” Read More

Nurse Practitioners Group Makes a National Case for It’s Members

Associations Now | Jul 18 2018

AANP’s “We Choose NPs” campaign is designed to show how its members can help close the gap for healthcare workers. Last week, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners launched a national advertising campaign encouraging the public to consider nurse practitioners as primary-care providers... Read More

More Nurse Practitioners Now Pursue Residency Programs To Hone Skills

Kaiser Health News | Jul 03 2018

The patient at the clinic was in his 40s and had lost both his legs to Type 1 diabetes. He had mental health and substance abuse problems and was taking large amounts of opioids to manage pain. He was assigned to Nichole Mitchell, who in 2014 was a newly minted nurse practitioner in her first week of a one-year postgraduate residency program at the Community Health Center clinic in Middletown, Conn... Read More

AANP Launches National Campaign to Coincide with Increasing Numbers

Advance Health Care Network | Jul 03 2018

Total number of NPs in U.S. approaching a quarter million. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is launching a $2 million national advertising and public awareness campaign, as a combination of changing regulations and a greater number of NPs combine to offer patients increased access... Read More

Nurse Practitioners Boost Presence By 43% In Rural America

Forbes | Jun 05 2018

Nurse practitioners have dramatically increased their presence as the go-to primary care providers in rural America thanks in part to regulatory changes that allow patients to more easily see these health professionals... Read More

Nurse Practitioners’ Role in Primary Care

University of Delaware | Jun 04 2018

Primary care is a critical piece of the healthcare puzzle because, for many people, it is the first point of contact with the healthcare system... Read More