To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at lstokowski@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) When I triage patients and give ...

Scope of practice, who can do what to whom, is a contentious area. There is fighting between those with large scopes of practice, such as physicians, and those with a lesser range, like advanced nurse ...

More than 400,000 registered nurses could be eligible to prescribe Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines if they complete ...

Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practice has been experiencing major changes in the last 10 years since the last American Nurses Association NPD Scope and Standards were written. During this ...

Scope of practice — who can practice what kind of medicine, in what settings and under what type of physician supervision, if any — is an issue that has preoccupied state legislatures and the courts ...

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health observes that the changing landscape of health care and the changing profile of the U.S. population will require fundamental shifts in the care ...

Morgan S (2010) What are the differences in nurse practitioner training and scope of practice in the US and UK? Nursing Times; 106: 27, early online publication. In the US, the role of the nurse ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has just released a controversial proposal that would give full practice authority to advanced practice nurses (APRNs) who work at the VA. Under the new rule, ...

THE Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council (TNMC) launched the first ever scope of practice for the professionals that sets forth specialties aimed at assisting on emerging and urgent health needs.