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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

Nurse practitioners (NPs) provide comprehensive healthcare services, from assessing and examining patients to ordering diagnostic tests, diagnosing illnesses, and treating or managing diseases. Additionally, nurse practitioners work with patients to promote wellness and prevent health problems with health education and preventive care.

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From Capitol to Clinic – Q1 Nursing Legislation Update

Capitol Beat

A critical bottleneck in expanding the nursing workforce is the limited availability of clinical preceptorsexperienced providers who provide hands-on training to nursing students, new nurses, or advance practice nurse candidates serving health professional shortage areas. Take Action for the bill! ICAN Act ( S.

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Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act: Legislators Want to Hear from Nurses 

Daily Nurse

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. The ICAN Act is improving care and access to nursing.

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Hospitals with the Most Vulnerable Maternity Patients Understaffed with Nurses

Minority Nurse

This inequity in reimbursement creates a fiscal challenge in hospitals with a high percentage of maternity patients insured by Medicaid,” says Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN, a perinatal clinical nurse specialist in St. Louis, MO, and the study’s lead author.

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New Zealand Nurse in Australia – Jacob

The Nurse Break

Where in Australia/clinical area are you now working? I am currently based in Melbourne working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within a metropolitan ICU, I joined this unit in 2021 as a Critical Care Registered Nurse and was promoted to CNS in 2022. How did you get a job initially in Australia?

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home. Home health care.

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The Breadth of Caring for Those with Chronic Conditions

American Nurse

Therefore, the nurse’s plan of care must be flexible to accommodate the changing presentation of the condition and how it is affected by aging, the environment (including nutrition), and whether there is the presence of other conditions. Nurses can have a major role in focusing on the positive. Chronic Diseases in America.