Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority Though the roles of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator are all vital to the health care industry, they are not allowed prescriptive authority per se. However, the rol Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nursing Framework Following its introduction during the 1960s, the role of the advanced practice nurse (hereinafter alternatively "APN") has expanded greatly into a number of specialty areas (Nwosuocha, 1999). Consequently, the de Continue Reading...
credentialing and regulatory problems encountered by Advanced Practice Nursing professionals (APNs). Further, it will explore the regulatory obstacles they come across, together with historical aspects that played a role in APN development to the le Continue Reading...
APRNs and State RegulationIntroductionThe evolution of healthcare practice has led to the development of advanced roles such as the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). Specifically, the role of the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) has been Continue Reading...
Advanced practice nursing (APN) is one of the nursing fields that plays a critical role in the promotion of the health and wellbeing of patient populations. APN is regarded as the usage of a wider scope of logical, constructive, and research-based co Continue Reading...
In other words, physicians authorize the nurse practitioner to prescribe certain medications -- perhaps not all but those medications that are most often required by patients -- without getting approval from a physician. It saves time and is primari Continue Reading...
American Healthcare System: Implications for Advanced Practice Nursing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) is the group of health care professionals on whom stakeholders and lawmakers depend to deliver most of America's health care. APRN Continue Reading...
Advance Practical Nurse Professional Development Plan Nursing is a very lucrative career. However, it takes a lot of work and determination to be a nurse. The job requires specific skills and education as well as licensing. Find below my personal Ad Continue Reading...
Nurses and Pain Management Pain management has always been a critical goal of health care workers. Strategies for improved pain management guidelines have been in place since the early 1990s, with the aim of allowing clinicians to improve pain manag Continue Reading...
Malpractice in Advanced Nursing Practice A CLOSER LOOK Legal/Ethical Principles When nurses pursued independent practice outside hospitals, the law supported their bid to breach traditional roles (Kjervik & Brous, 2013). This phenomenon was de Continue Reading...
Interactions: the patient had informed me about his medical history and his psychological state so as to compensate and recommend the best possible drug dosage. Nursing implications: This drug has mild side effects. However, the patient was still Continue Reading...
Pharmacology for Nurses Pharmacology, the study of drugs and their effects on the human body, is a critical component of nursing education and practice. Nurses must have a sound understanding of pharmacology to safely administer medications and mo Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act of Virginia: The scope of practice in medicine, nursing, law, dentistry, and various other disciplines are usually established and regulated at the state level. This implies that the legislative body in every state establishes p Continue Reading...
Business Management Plan for Primary Care Setting Develop a business management plan for a primary care setting Promote an APN practice to the public Expertise of professionals specialized in the skills and knowledge are vital towards the achievem Continue Reading...
According to the AACN's report, "Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Competencies in Specialty Areas: Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, and Women's Health" (2002), "Competencies are the domain or body of knowledge and skills that essentially def Continue Reading...
Texas is one of the strictest states in the country for nurse practitioners who want to open their own clinics, requiring them to find a physician with the willingness and time to follow a complex set of rules. Those rules include requiring the phy Continue Reading...
Today, health care in the United States is characterized by growing demand combined with skyrocketing costs and critical shortages of qualified health care practitioners. In response to these challenges, there has also been a growing consensus among Continue Reading...
To make the point Silverstein reiterates the history of psychiatric specialty nursing, a traditional role for specialty care in nursing. To deliver specialized care to those in mental institutions, mental nurses were required to possess specific qu Continue Reading...
Nurse Practice Act or ORC 4723, permits the OBN to create and enforce regulations and rules for practical nurses, registered nurses, certified nurse-midwives, dialysis technicians, certified registered nurse anethetists, certified nurse practitioner Continue Reading...
The NP emphasizes health promotion, while, particularly in North America, the MD primarily focuses on disease treatment. The role of the NP and the MD are simultaneously similar yet differ from each other. Consequently, no reason supports the conten Continue Reading...
Family Nurse Practioner Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in family surburban clinic The paper provides information on an advanced nursing role (Family Nurse Practitioner). It consists of the requirements of the nursing role in terms of certification Continue Reading...
Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 certainly had noble intentions and safeguards. Indeed, there is a definitive reason why physicians are allowed a certain set of rights and responsibilities and why nurse practitioners are just a little further do Continue Reading...
"(History of Nurse Anesthesia Practice) Among the earlier formal programs for nurse anesthesia were those established at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the University Hospital of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Charity Hospital in Ne Continue Reading...
Establishing an NP Led Wellness and Recovery Center for Deinstitutionalized Individuals Historically, nursing, and medicine professions have been loath to utilize tools commonly linked with mercenary aspects of business, such as market research and Continue Reading...
H.R.1247 -- Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015 The Improving Veterans Access to Care Act (H.R.1247) sponsored by Representatives Sam Graves (R-MO) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) (hereinafter alternatively "the Act"), is intended to red Continue Reading...
MI NP Prescribing Laws While many of the laws and rules when it comes to healthcare and what practitioners can do are federal in nature, the states have their say as well. Among the many examples of this are the Michigan-specific laws that exist whe Continue Reading...
Remote Nursing Review The Roles of Registered Nursing in Shaping and Providing Care in Rural and Remote Locations: A Literature Review The roles and perspectives of nursing have undergone major changes in the past several decades, continuing the ra Continue Reading...
Clinical Assessment of Learners Clinical assessment involves the evaluation of technical skills, communication skills, professionalism, knowledge base, and teaching skills, where applicable, of students who are about to enter independent practice. T Continue Reading...
