Seventeen states and the District of Columbia currently allow nurse practitioners (NP) to work autonomously, but a bill to add California to the...Read More »
Greater reliance on physician assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NP) is seen as one way to ameliorate the widening primary care physician...Read More »
Three pieces of legislation related to expanding allied health practitioners’ scope of practice—Senate Bill (SB) 491, SB492, and SB493—have met...Read More »
As the debate over increasing nurse practitioners’ (NP) scope of responsibility intensifies, a new study published in the July issue of Health...Read More »
When reviewing compliance regarding FPPE/OPPE, we find some issues result from a fragmented approach to the privileging process. Although many...Read More »
Members of the U.S. Senate Rural Health Caucus have introduced a bill that would allow general supervision by physician or nonphysician providers...Read More »
Members of the public are open to physician assistants and nurse practitioners playing a greater role in healthcare delivery, according to a...Read More »
The public may be more willing to accept wider roles for some healthcare professionals, but the debate over expanding practitioners’ scope of care...Read More »
