In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses’ ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit ...

The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

Over the past few decades, a global trend has emerged in which the role of the nurse has been advanced and expanded on the basis of new scientific and clinical knowledge and on greater use of ...

Amid controversy over the expanding role of nonphysician providers to help fill in the gap left by a growing doctor shortage, a new study claims that advanced practice nurses deliver care that is just ...

Carole R. Myers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is a University of Tennessee College of Nursing professor with a specialty in health policy. Sharon Davis, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC, is a clinical associate professor in the ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...