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VA Submits Proposed Regulation Allowing Full Practice Authority
Jan 19, 2016
Now under consideration: a proposal to allow advanced practice registered nurses full practice authority in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities. This is an important step in a process that has been underway for at least two years, and you can weigh in. On January 8, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs submitted the draft regulation for a more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Study: When Nurse Practitioners Provide Primary Care, Medicare Costs Are Lower
Jan 11, 2016
In a finding that contradicts previous data, the cost to Medicare is lower when nurse practitioners rather than physicians provide primary care, says a new study. Researchers from Mathematica Policy Research, Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Montana State University who studied national data over a 12-month more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Huge Interest in IOM’s Future of Nursing Report Shows in Record Number of Downloads
Jan 05, 2016
Reflecting the fact that nurses play a critical role in improving America’s health and health care system, the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report remains the IOM’s most downloaded report since its release in 2010. As of December 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) records 129,874 downloads of Future more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Increasing Access to Care: The APRN Consensus Model 2008 to 2015
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The Institute of Medicine’s first recommendation in the Future of Nursing report is to remove scope of practice barriers, in order to increase the public’s access to advanced practice registered nurses care. This webinar focuses on a key aspect of that recommendation: that state legislatures should conform to the National Council of State Boards more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Preparing the Nursing Workforce to Transform Healthcare
Oct 25, 2015
National & State Perspectives, Initiatives are Focus of MA Workforce Summit More than 150 nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum attended the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit and shared updates on national and statewide progress in developing a more highly educated and diverse nursing workforce, including data more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts
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The Future of Nursing Is Here: Campaign Marks Five Years of Progress
Oct 21, 2015
Five years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health made an urgent case for transforming nursing to bring better health to more Americans. Soon after, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) joined forces to create the Future of Nursing:Campaign for Action, with the goal of making the more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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IOM Evaluation Report Will Reflect Research, Perspectives From Many
Oct 21, 2015
Speaking in July to the IOM evaluation committee for the IOM Evaluation Report about models of academic progression are Jenny Landen, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, dean of the School of Fitness Education, School of Health, Math, more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies for LPNs
Sep 24, 2015
Five years after the publication of the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies© – Registered Nurse (NOFNCC-RN) and their implementation into academic and practice settings across the state, Massachusetts nurse leaders have developed a similar set of competencies specific more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts