Issue   Improving Access to Care

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. National

    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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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