The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

Leadership and pioneering became a way of life for Juanzetta S. Flowers, DSN, RN, an inductee into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame and the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. One of Alabama’s first ...

Essentia argues that lowering the loan caps on those seeking careers in fields like nursing and occupational therapy may have to seek loans from private companies and would be subject to higher ...

If you’ve been to a doctor’s office, walk-in health clinic or hospital recently, the odds are pretty good that you have met or received care from an advanced practice registered nurse. Known as APRNs, ...

All nurses should re-examine the concept of advanced and advancing practice and help to determine the future of their practice and profession Abstract Part 1 of this two-part series suggests that the ...

Through Bethel’s M.S. in Nurse-Midwifery program, you’ll earn the credentials to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare, primary care, care during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and newborn ...

Advanced practice nursing is a rapidly evolving discipline that transcends traditional nursing roles by integrating enhanced clinical skills, autonomy in decision‐making, and leadership in ...

Nurses working at an advanced level are autonomous professionals and are ‘not substitutes for any other profession’, the RCN has stated.

Advanced nursing practice in the UK was pioneered in the 1970s. Advanced nursing roles have grown but the UK lacks a regulatory framework to define advanced practice and the education it requires; ...

The strength of caring in nursing lies in its moral foundation (or the "ought" of nursing). Chambliss describes this as the nurse's "commitment to the welfare...of the 'whole' person" (p. 3). [9] The ...