We’ve seen the beginning of the Winkler County whistle-blowing nurses movie so many times, but it still doesn’t have an ending. It has an all-star […]
Posts Tagged ‘Advanced Practice Nurses’
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) […]
“I Promised Myself That It Would Happen” What happens when a will the size of Texas faces off with the great state itself.
American Journal of Nursing [Vol. 102, No. 10, pp. 106-7], October 1, 2002
It would be difficult to say where Sister Angela Murdaugh, MSN, RN, CNM, FACNM, has made a more profound difference: advancing the profession of nurse […]
U.S. Medical Needs Extend Past Physicans
Austin American-Statesman, January 17, 1994
With the above-the-fold Dec. 26 editorial entitled “Health care reform should draw doctors toward primary care”, the Austin American-Statesman joined the national chorus of plaintive […]
Nursing is nursing, not doctoring
The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 1993
Having practiced neonatal nursing for the past 13 years, I am continuously frustrated by this nation’s ability to cure 500-gram infants vis-à-vis its glaring inability […]
Empowerment of Advanced Practice Nurses: Regulation Reform Needed to Increase Access to Care
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics [Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 193-205], February 1, 1993
[This policy article appeared in this law journal the same year that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform met. Task force […]
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