September 1, 2011
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Last year Maryland lawmakers reduced the restrictive collaboration burden by replacing the lengthy collaborative agreement that nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians had to sign with a single page “attestation form” that NPs fill out and sign wit ...
June 1, 2011
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This post is part of an ongoing series of Voices from the Field by scholars, fellows and alumni of RWJF Human Capital programs. The author, Mary Hooshmand, R.N., Ph.D., is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows prog ...
June 20, 2012
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Hospital units designed specifically for the care of older patients could save as much as $6 billion a year, a study from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) finds. In a randomized controlled trial, patients in “acute care for elder ...