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...
This is the FNP portion of the ANCC website and gives plenty of information and helpful hints on our FNP credentialing exam. This site is very thorough and has lots of information, including how to...
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 ...
Basically states values are reflected in politics and social values so this author compared states with full practice authority compared to those who ratified the Equal Rights Amendment and those w...
This article explains that California law requires a CNM to have a physician telephonically available to consult should him/her need advisement, but that this advisement is left at the discretion o...
This article's title is figurative, yet descriptive of the actual role progression to transition to NNP APRN from expert NICU RN. This includes change in care delivery to care provision. The change...
The articles defines the basic roles and educational qualification that must be met by advanced practiced nurses, and their certifying and accrediting bodies at the state and national levels. The ...
As I finish the reading for the final week, ch 27 is the most interesting. It really brings in the topics of politics that we visited last week in our class session. As future APRNs, we must be fam...
http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/4/254.long This article focused on implementing a crew resource management training for their staff of L&D nurses, OB physicians, anesthesia team, midwi...
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...
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...
Here is a link from ANA Biggest takeaway: 1) Takes TIME and 2) there is a learning curve https://americannursetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ant7-Focus-On-CAREER-621.pdf
http://nursejournal.org/family-practice/role-scope-of-practice-of-a-family-nurse-practitioner/ This is an excellent and informative article that discusses the role of the Family Nurse Practitione...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002074891400176X This article is a systemic review of the impact Nurse Practitioners have in an ER setting on the cost, quality of care, wait time...
This article explains that we still have a long way to go to have a uniform SOP across the nation. Apparently 18 states and the DC had specific regulations of SOP and certification for NPs whereas ...
This is an article where the results of a randomized trial on patient outcomes depending on the type of provider (NP vs. MD) are discussed. Over a 2 year-follow-up, patient outcomes (including pati...
These three articles discuss the history and operations of the first clinic run entirely by primary care nurses - Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates (CAPNA). CAPNA is he first clinic staf...
In searching for APRN run community health clinics, I came across this organization. West Hawaii Community Health Center is a clinic located in Hawaii with one of their feature APRN's being Anjalie...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21419973 In this article the authors touched on the role of the APRN in pediatric CT surgery areas. They explain that the role of the APRN is helpful in the cont...
