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...
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...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/doi/10.1111/jmwh.12362/full This is a great article that describes a scoring system for scope of practice of certified nurse midwives by state...
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/103/5/1050.1.full.pdf An article highlighting the contribution of APRNs (and PAs) in the hospital care setting. This article includes educa...
NONPF facilitated a multi-organizational work group to develop a statement on primary care and acute care nurse practitioners. The work group intended for the document to be a resource to individ...
This article looks at the transition from utilization of midwives to a highly medicalized way of birthing. Additionally, it speaks to midwifery in our current society. This is a well rounded resour...
This article is a good article that provides a brief summary of how the Emergency Nurse Practitioner profession came about and the evolution of the profession
These are two links for initial reading on NP residency programs. I have never heard about them until this assignment, so this seemed like a great place to start for me to get some information on w...
