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October 25, 2012 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
March 20, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A new report examines the scope-of-practice laws and payment policies that affect how and to what extent nurse practitioners can provide primary care.
January 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
An Institute for Healthcare Improvement webinar will explore how nurse practitioners or advanced practice nurses are being deployed and woven into new, interdisciplinary, team-based delivery designs.
July 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The number of trained nurse practitioners (NP) in the United States is expected to increase by 94 percent from 2008 to 2025, according to a study published in the July issue of Medical Care. Those providing care as NPs will rise 130 percent, from 86 ...
August 25, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Allison Stevens is a writer based in Washington, D.C. She writes about women’s issues, motherhood, politics and health, and also writes for a firm that works for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At the beginning of the summer, my family and I too ...
June 3, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Earlier this week, PBS NewsHour aired an important story on the expanding role of nurse practitioners in primary care. The piece includes a look at nurse-run clinics and the state of nursing education, and includes an interview with John Rowe, M.D., ...
May 1, 2010 | Commentary
If primary care is the foundation of the future health care system in this country, and if access to primary care for all is to be ensured while containing or reducing costs of care,then nurse practitioners will be crucial to achieving these aims.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Nurse practitioners are the principal group of advanced practice nurses delivering primary care in the United States. This study reviewed the current and projected nurse practitioner workforce and summarized the available evidence of their contributions to improving primary care and reducing more costly health resource use.
August 14, 2009 | Story
Prescriptive authority.
January 1, 2009 | Chart
This chart provides a state-by state overview of the different scopes of practice for Nurse Practitioners in the U.S.