Survey Shows Consumers Open To A Greater Role For Physician Assistants And Nurse Practi... - 3 views
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katyabrickman on 05 Oct 16Great resource for information regarding patient's opinions towards seeing APRNs.
https://uaprn.enpnetwork.com/page/17861-aprns-are-georgia-s-answer-to-its-shortage-of-primary-care-providers- This article is specific to Georgia and touches on the history of the role of the APRN...
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) has risen to epidemic rates in the U.S. and is under-reported. The data for 28 states, reported in this article, indicates these trends. The use of ICD-9 codes ar...
This article discusses the current decline in the number of primary care physicians and the ever-growing need for APRNs in the primary care setting. With 84% more primary care NPs between 2010 and ...
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.library.emory.edu/books/NBK384613/ While there is more research to be done to fully understand health outcomes for patients under the care of a physician vs an A...
While the role of an APRN has continued to grow nationally, Georgia's laws for practicing APRNs remains one of the most restrictive in the US. Some feel as though Georgia's laws regarding APRN prac...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2012.00812.x/full Diverse regulatory criteria, such as variable accreditation standards, disparate certification and licensing requirements, ...
These are the links that I used. They have some of the history going back as far as the 1800s. They were nurses but they were really practicing medicine and caring for patients in a NP role. https...