What makes a job one of the best? According to U.S. News, the answer is a near perfect mix of employment opportunity, job security, competitive salary, and manageable work-life balance. A career as...
http://kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/tapping-nurse-practitioners-to-meet-rising-demand-for-primary-care/ This article does a wonderful job in portraying the shortage of primary care health professi...
This is a useful article written by one of my former professors at Johns Hopkins. I think it provides great insight into transitioning process of becoming an APRN. This article outlines the importa...
This article really highlights how vital it is to the success of new NP's to have mentors and support systems in place for the first job out of school. So really it just enforces what the panel mem...
http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/salary-center/default.aspx I thought this website is very useful. Good information center with lots of resources: first year NP/...
I found this map helpful in determining which states were most restrictive in their legislation towards the APRN scope. This resource, maintained by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners,...
http://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(13)00589-8/pdf
This article does a great job of outlining the historical timeline of nurse practitioners in the ED setting. The main thing I took away from this article is that the role of ENPs is relatively new ...
In the past, family was the only available specialty for nurse practitioners. As a result there are still many FNP's the work in hospitals because they were "grandfathered" in. When deciding upon a...
