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    AARP Bulletin Highlights Efforts in California to Remove Barriers to Nursing Practice and Care

    Apr 01, 2014

    A new article in the AARP Bulletin, “Nurses Seeking Larger Role in Primary Care,” highlights efforts in California to remove barriers to nursing practice and care. While nurse practitioners have advanced education and training to provide many aspects of primary care, “California and most other states limit their availability by permitting these nurses more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: California National

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    Remembering Pioneers: Women Nurses Who Transformed Care

    Mar 28, 2014

    I usually focus on the future of nursing, but Women’s History Month offers an opportunity to remember some of the women pioneers who paved the way for us. They faced some of the same obstacles to transforming care that we do, and their methods to overcome adversity and persevere can serve as lessons and inspiration to us as we strive to strengthen nursing more

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    More States Removing Barriers to Nursing Practice and Care

    Mar 20, 2014

    Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), such as nurse practitioners, can help meet the primary health care needs of consumers, including the millions of new people enrolled under the Affordable Care Act and those living in rural areas. But outdated state scope of practice laws are keeping nurses from practicing to the full extent of their more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Hawaii National Nevada North Dakota

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    Nurse Leaders in Utah Increase Patients’ Access to Care

    Mar 20, 2014

    The Utah Action Coalition for Health scored a major regulatory victory last fall that removed a barrier to advanced nursing practice. A coalition of nurses and other health care professionals in Utah eliminated a key regulatory barrier to nursing last fall in a move that proponents said will significantly increase access to health care. In more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National Utah

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    Champions of Nursing: The Leapfrog Group

    Mar 20, 2014

    The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is proud to have the support of The Leapfrog Group and its president and chief executive officer, Leah Binder. Based in Washington, D.C., The Leapfrog Group is a national organization representing employer purchasers of health care more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    FTC: Expanded APRN Scope of Practice Good for Competition and Consumers

    Mar 11, 2014

    On March 7, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a staff paper urging state legislators and policy makers to be mindful when evaluating proposals that limit access to care provided by advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). In the paper, Policy Perspectives: Competition and the Regulation of Advanced Practice Nurses, the FTC concludes that more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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    President’s 2015 Budget Seeks to Boost Primary Care

    Mar 04, 2014

    Today the Obama Administration released its 2015 fiscal budget.  In the budget, President Obama proposed fixing the glitch that left nurse practitioners (NPs) out of the Medicaid primary care bonus, and extending those increased payment rates for all Medicaid primary care providers for one year. This provision was specifically mentioned in the Institute of more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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    New Study Shows Nurse Education Level, Caseload Affect Patient Mortality

    Mar 03, 2014

    A new European study published in The Lancet sheds more light on the importance of nurses having a bachelor’s degree and manageable workload. According to the study, patients who underwent surgical procedures were more likely to die if they were treated in hospitals where nurses were caring for more patients and fewer nurses held bachelor’s more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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