Consumer Protection Agency Supports APRN Prescribing Bills

Jan 28, 2020

In order to prescribe drugs, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in Kansas and Ohio must first enter into a contract with a physician. That could change, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hoping it does. The agency issued letters earlier this month telling more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Kansas Ohio

2020: Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Jan 22, 2020

Nurses make up the largest health care profession, not only in the United States but in the entire world. For this reason in part, the World Health Organization more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership

Hospital Bridges the Gap by Going Into the Community—Strategically

Jan 17, 2020

It is well known that nurses offer diagnoses, treatments, compassion, and care where they work and where they live. What is less known is that, increasingly, nurses are creating and participating in large-scale, systemic efforts to take on health equity by addressing needs before they become illnesses. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois

Maryland Waiver Eases Homebound Patients’ Access to Nurses

Jan 09, 2020

A major recommendation of the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report, written to improve health and health care for all Americans, is to allow advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to order and certify home health more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Maryland

In 2019, Slow but Sure Progress in Laws, Policy

Dec 18, 2019

The past 12 months have seen shifts in the legal landscape that mean more people have, and might soon have, greater options in their health care. At the federal level: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 1 announced a final ruling on more

Issues: Improving Access to Care

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For All You Did in 2019, Thank You!

Dec 10, 2019

At the start of 2019, we were anticipating great progress and big news on many fronts. Thanks to you, the last 12 months have lived up to those hopes. Even as we continue advancing on our mission to strengthen our profession, we are growing to embrace a more more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

AARP, RWJF Leaders Write About Combined Histories, Successes

Nov 22, 2019

When the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care connected with the nation’s largest consumer membership organization, good things were bound 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

Nurse Scientist Highlights Needs of Female Service Members

Nov 11, 2019

Nurse Lori Trego (far right) founded the Military Women’s Health Research Interest Group in 2010. The group is sponsored by the TriService Nursing Research Program and composed of nurse scientists. Photo courtesy of more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care