New Jersey is training world-class advanced practice nurses — and then watching them leave. Rutgers nursing leaders explain how outdated state laws are driving talent across state lines and limiting ...

In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses’ ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

Advanced practice registered nurses are earning more than $150,000, a new study indicates, with pay for the profession soaring as nurses in all fields take on more responsibilities once the sole ...

Over the past few decades, a global trend has emerged in which the role of the nurse has been advanced and expanded on the basis of new scientific and clinical knowledge and on greater use of ...

Amid controversy over the expanding role of nonphysician providers to help fill in the gap left by a growing doctor shortage, a new study claims that advanced practice nurses deliver care that is just ...

The strength of caring in nursing lies in its moral foundation (or the "ought" of nursing). Chambliss describes this as the nurse's "commitment to the welfare...of the 'whole' person" (p. 3). [9] The ...

Carole R. Myers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is a University of Tennessee College of Nursing professor with a specialty in health policy. Sharon Davis, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC, is a clinical associate professor in the ...