Nurse Practitioners News

• ONS 2018Intake Model Frees Up Providers, Reduces Patient Anxiety When an oncology center restructured the intake process, it cut the time nurses spend with new patients and improved the satisfaction of patients and physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• APNs Facilitate Pediatric Otolaryngology Callbacks to Caregivers Strategic use of advanced practice nurses to resolve patient triage issues can speed clinician response time to clinically-relevant phone calls in a high-volume pediatric otolaryngology practice, researchers in Ohio say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Fighting Clinician Burnout Through Art, EHRs, and Teamwork Everything from improving EHRs and building better teams to art and poetry may reduce burnout in the medical profession, said panelists at a National Academy of Medicine event.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• Who Should Step Up to Help in a Medical Emergency? A Medscape poll finds uncertainty among licensed providers and medical students regarding questions about which level of provider is qualified or obligated to step forward in a crisis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• Number of NPs/PAs in Specialty Care Rises 22% Over a Decade Multispecialty practices were the most likely to employ nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and surgical specialties were least likely to employ them.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• PAs Less Accurate Than Dermatologists at Diagnosing Melanoma Compared with dermatologists, physician assistants (PAs) are less likely to diagnose melanoma and more likely to perform more biopsies for each case of diagnosed skin cancer, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• HMExperts Bust Myths About Working With NPs and PAs Medicare recognized the services of advanced practice providers 20 years ago, but their roles are still not fully understood, and some hospital bylaws haven't caught up.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Urinary Incontinence Tied to Impaired Sexual Health in Older People
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• AAGP 2018New Inpatient Program Stems 'Epidemic of Violence' A novel interdisciplinary program called BOOST improves care of hospitalized geriatric patients with behavioral disturbance; 78% of staff said it enhanced workplace safety.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Abortion Care Varies Highly Across the US, New Report Says An updated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found the quality of abortion care in the United States varies greatly depending on where a woman lives.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Lifting Therapy Caps Is a Load Off Medicare Patients’ Shoulders Last month’s budget deal means Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for physical and occupational therapy indefinitely. Plus, prescription drug costs will fall for more seniors.
  Kaiser Health News, March 2018
• U.S. Faces Shortage of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Specialists A shortage of clinicians specializing in pediatric behavioral and developmental disorders is translating into long wait times for new patient appointments amid surging demand, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018
• Rheumatologist Shortage Growing, New Models Needed New care and training models will be needed to stem a growing shortage of rheumatologists driven by changing workforce and population demographics.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Harassment From Patients Prevalent, Poll Shows Harassment is more frequent against nurses than doctors, but doctors get more inappropriate communication from patients. Almost all male nurses say they have been threatened with physical violence.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Provider Factors Tied to Unneeded Antibiotic Prescriptions NPs and PAs were 15% more likely than physicians to prescribe unwarranted antibiotics for adults, whereas older providers wrote more inappropriate prescriptions for children.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018
• DEA Expands Access to Opioid Addiction Treatment via NPs, PAs Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are now permitted to prescribe and dispense FDA-approved opioid treatment medications, the DEA rules.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018
• Enhanced Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact Implemented The National Council of State Boards of Nursing added new requirements to the Nurse Licensure Compact, an interstate agreement that allows nurses to practice in multiple states with one license.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018
• Transitional Care Nurses in the ED May Help Curb Geriatric Hospitalizations
  Reuters Health Information, January 2018
• Nurses Have High Satisfaction Rates, but Decry Lack of Respect Medscape's annual survey found that more nurses were seeking career paths that helped them balance their work and home lives.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2017
• 'Not Going to Stop Having Sex': Trump's Cuts Leave U.S. Rural Teens at Pregnancy Risk
  Reuters Health Information, December 2017