While Congress proved incompetent to improve health care, Texas legislators have a golden opportunity right now to dramatically increase access to care. How? By substantially […]
Advanced Practice Nursing Articles
Solid alternatives to ERs still lacking
Austin American-Statesman, January 22, 2014
On the second day of the new year, I slipped on a rock and fell into Shoal Creek. When I saw the gigantic splash coupled […]
Plugging the mental health care gap in Austin
Austin American-Statesman, December 8, 2013
The Seton Healthcare Family’s announcement Tuesday to open the region’s first psychiatric emergency department raises a simple question: How has Austin gotten by for so […]
Proposal offers Texans better health care access
Austin American Statesman, February 15, 2013
While Gov. Rick Perry was in California this week attempting to woo insurance, high tech and film industry leaders to the Lone Star State’s business-friendly, […]
Toni Inglis Dec. 2012 UT-Austin School of Nursing Convocation Address
Bass Concert Hall, December 8, 2012
Thank you, Dean Stuifbergen, distinguished faculty, friends and families. Congratulations, Class of 2012! Here you are. You’ve completed something extremely difficult, been in school, many […]
Lawmakers, Doctors Holding Nurses Back
Austin American-Statesman, April 22, 2011
Here’s an idea that wouldn’t cost Texas a dime but would save millions of dollars every year: Remove all barriers restraining nurses from practicing to […]
Health reform must address primary care shortcomings
Austin American-Statesman, September 11, 2009
As a 30-year neonatal intensive care unit nurse, I know that America funds and delivers the finest high-technology care in the world. But when I admit so many babies of working parents with no insurance and work way too hard to find primary care providers for the babies we send home, I know our country has a terrible problem.
AJN 2004 Career Guide — Nursing the trends: Nurses have more employment options than ever
American Journal of Nursing [2004 Career Guide, pp. 25-32], January 1, 2004
This solicited piece is a broad, comprehensive overview of the state of the nursing profession in the United States.
One Step Forward, One Step Back: Physician supervision requirements are troublesome for CRNAs.
American Journal of Nursing [Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 91-4], January 1, 2003
“It’s a wash,” says Sally Bass Witkowski, CRNA, BSR, when asked about the recent flip-flop Medicare rulings on physician supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) […]
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