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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services. Twenty-seven states currently allow full practice authority for nurse practitioners.

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Full Practice Authority: APRN Readiness, Barriers to Practice and Access in South Carolina

American Nurse

Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists are seeking full practice authority as one legislative strategy to improve access to care and outcomes. Quality of primary care provided to Medicare beneficiaries by nurse practitioners and physicians. 13 Buerhaus, P.,