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NewsDocs support enhanced NP collaboration
With a looming workforce shortage and a shift toward collaborative care, Virginia physicians support legislation that will include the role of nurse practitioners, while also better defining surgery. Read more...
Nurse intervention aims to reduce readmissions
As hospitals continue to combat readmissions, facilities in Florida and New Jersey have found a successful tool: nurse intervention and communication. For instance, Memorial Hospital focuses on Read more...
Completed discharge summaries reduce readmission risk
Complete and timely discharge summaries can help prevent readmissions and improve patient safety, suggests a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Joint Commission-accredited Read more...
Nurse practitioners don't improve readmissions
Although adding a nurse practitioner (NP) to a care team can improve the discharge process, it doesn't decrease patient readmissions, according to a study published in this month's Journal of Read more...
Hospitals use more NPs, PAs amid doc shortage
With some hospitals struggling to fill a physician void, more institutions are turning to nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) for a solution. In fact, hospital outpatient visits Read more...
Add NPs to reduce emergency visits in half, coordinate care
Hospitals trying to reduce emergency department (ED) crowding should look to new research from Loyola University Health System (LUHS), which found that adding a nurse practitioner (NP) to staff can Read more...
Study: Patients prefer NPs over physicians
Patients indicated they are more satisfied with nurse practitioners' care than with doctors', according to a small survey conducted researchers at the University of Michigan. NPs outscored physicians Read more...
Advanced practice RNs are frugal fix to doc shortage
As hospitals struggle to ease the shortage of primary-care doctors, advanced practice nurses could pose an efficient and cost-effective solution. Enabling nurses to perform to the fullest extent of Read more...
FTC supports full prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners in Florida
The Federal Trade Commission has voiced its support of a bill to reduce Florida's current supervision requirements on nurse practitioners, calling it "a pro-competitive improvement in the law." In a Read more...
Albany Med to pay $4.5M to settle nurse pay lawsuit
Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital will pay more than $4.5 million to settle its part in a lawsuit alleging hospitals in the greater Albany area conspired to keep pay unusually low for thousands Read more...
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