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This article discusses the difficulties APRNs experience while attempting to expand their scope of practice. It explores arguments between nurse practitioners and physicians on how APRNs will contribute to the shortage of primary care providers.

The article talks about the rise of two professions of NP and PA to help with the acute shortage of doctors post WW II.

This report summarizes the current understanding of teamwork, describes interventions designed to improve teamwork, and makes practical recommendations for hospitals to assess and improve teamwork-related performance. Examples of interventions that have successfully improved teamwork include the following: localization of physicians, daily goals-of-care forms and checklists, teamwork training, and interdisciplinary rounds.

This is a very literal guide to teamwork - it details the roles and responsibilites of an interdisciplinary health care team - from the physician and nurses to dietitians and social workers

Recruiters reveal how to respond to the most complicated questions.

GetAMedJob - Searching for a healthcare position doesn't have to be a daunting experience!

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This is a posting board that shows different job postings made by various companies. I like to look at specific websites for physician groups such as CEP, EMA, etc.

This article begins by informing us that the first APRN was in 1877. The article defines an APRN discusses APRNs history, scope of practice, different specialties and their role and educational requirements along with our future needs in Oncology and the importance of our input in the business of healthcare. It ends with the emphasis that our importance must be documented and communicated to healthcare decision makers and we need to collaborate with physicians and administrators and negotiate with business makers to change healthcare reform.

Great article by John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs Population aging and recent coverage expansions have fueled concerns about physician shortages in primary care, leading several influential groups to recommend that nurse practitioners take on a larger role. The ACA promotes nurse practitioners as an integral part of the future workforce, and emerging care settings, such as retail clinics, rely heavily on nurse practitioners.

Great resource for information regarding patient's opinions towards seeing APRNs.

Discussion of progress and barriers to expanded SOP for NPs, including physician's arguments for mandatory physician oversight.

I found this article very interesting. It talks about the current challenges in midwifery in regards to legislation, reimbursement, physician restrictions, and many other restricting factors. It also discusses the challenges of the education required to become an APRN.

This article discusses the challenges in standardizing the APRN scope and practice in order to increase the mobility between states for practicing APRNs. It also would increase access to APRN care nationwide. After the signing of the Affordable Care Act, there was an increase in care provided and the need for nurse practitioners increased with that.The Federal Trade Commission found that mandatory physician supervision for nurse practitioners led to higher costs and reduced quality of care.

This study looks at trends in state scope-of-practice regulations.

This article provides clarification regarding physician delegation to APRN's in GA.

History and Benefits to having the role of ENPs