If you’ve been to a doctor’s office, walk-in health clinic or hospital recently, the odds are pretty good that you have met or received care from an advanced practice registered nurse. Known as APRNs, ...

Abstract This first in a three-part series on advanced nursing practice reviews its historical evolution. Part 2, to be published next week, reviews the introduction of a governance framework, while ...

The role of advanced practice nurses (nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists) [1] seems to be in a state of flux. Not quite doctors but more than ...

The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...

Universities across the UK have signed on as ‘early adopters’ of the NMC's newly launched ‘principles for advanced practice ...

Advanced nursing practice in the UK was pioneered in the 1970s. Advanced nursing roles have grown but the UK lacks a regulatory framework to define advanced practice and the education it requires; ...