Medscape's Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses allows readers to seek general information from Carolyn Buppert, MSN, JD about legal or professional nursing issues, including advanced practice ...

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Recently, the federal government announced that nursing and certain other health professions will not be recognized as professional degree programs. This decision could ...

DALLAS — Nursing associations in the U.S. are asking nurses and nurse practitioners across the country to flood the Department of Education with their comments, and their disappointment, in a portion ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...

A misguided proposal would limit student loans for advanced nursing degrees when shortages are already severe, guest columnist Luci Baines Johnson writes.

The lawmakers said that the administration had "deviated from historical practice and threatened public health" with the policy.