Nurse Practitioners News

• Counting the Costs: U.S. Hospitals Feeling the Pain of Physician Burnout Dr. Brian Halloran, a vascular surgeon at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, starts planning his garden long before spring arrives in southeast Michigan.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2017
• Earning Power for Advanced Practice Nurses Keeps Growing Six-figure pay is now the norm, and CRNAs are closing in on $200,000 a year, according to the 2017 Medscape APRN Salary Report.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Millennials Embrace Nursing Profession, Just in Time to Replace Baby Boomers Nursing generally offers stable earnings and low unemployment, which likely sounds good to young adults who came of age during the Great Recession.
  Kaiser Health News, October 2017
• CHESTSaline for Resuscitation, Cancer Screening at CHEST 2017 Debates on the use of saline to resuscitate critically ill patients, updates in lung cancer screening, and a chance to play Pulmonary Adventures II: Temple of Gloom await attendees at CHEST 2017.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Motorbikes, Trust and Pepper Soup - Ebola Tips to Tackle Deadly Diseases
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• WCLCImmunotherapy Side Effects: New Global Guidelines for Nurses Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer therapy, but these drugs have unique and sometimes life-threatening adverse events, as outlined in the new guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Portal-based Education Helps Curb Inappropriate MRIs for Low Back Pain Physician education, facilitated by an American College of Radiology’s R-SCAN web portal, can reduce the number of inappropriate magnetic resonance imaging studies for uncomplicated low back pain, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Nurse's Forceful Arrest Prompts Policy Changes She was protecting an unconscious patient from a blood draw. Police have put a detective and another person on leave "pending investigation," and rules of interaction have been changed.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2017
• Nurse Arrested After Protecting Patient From Blood Draw She explains to an officer that his request to draw blood violates hospital policy regarding unconscious patients; he handcuffs her and puts her into a patrol car. The incident is under investigation.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2017
• Convicted German Nurse May Have Killed at Least 86 Patients Niels Högel admitted to intentionally inducing cardiac arrest via lethal injection of heart medication so he could try to revive them.
  Medscape Medical News, August 2017
• PCPs Can Effectively Manage HCV Care With New Drugs Primary care providers and nurse practitioners can safely and effectively manage care for patients with hepatitis C virus, using new drugs.
  Medscape Medical News, August 2017
• AANPClinical Experience Focus of Revamped DNP Curriculum The fresh approach will offer clinical experience throughout the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program at Johns Hopkins University to give students time to learn more theory and apply it.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2017
• AANPHospital Visits by Nurse Practitioners Prevent Readmission A novel three-step approach eliminated rehospitalization in an older cohort of patients, and nurses report that contact with some of their most vulnerable hospitalized patients improves care.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2017
• AANPAssumptions Blind Practitioners to Human Trafficking Most rescued trafficking victims say they had at least one encounter with a healthcare provider during captivity, but were not recognized as victims.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2017
• Texas Nurse Charged With Death of Second Baby Decades after prosecutors convicted Genene Jones of killing a single infant, a Texas grand jury has indicted the former nurse on a second new charge of murder. Prosecutors hope to prevent Jones’ release from prison, which is scheduled for next year.
  ProPublica, June 2017
• AANPNurse Practitioners in Primary Care in the Spotlight at AANP Presentations at the upcoming American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference will emphasize the growing importance of nurses in day-to-day care in the patient's medical home.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2017
• PA and NP Participation in Specialist Visits Doubles The rise was similar for new and return visits and for all visit reasons. Otorhinolaryngology had the highest percentage and general surgery had the lowest.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2017
• Nurses Love What They Do but Battle Fatigue, Survey Shows A survey shows that 93% of RNs in the US are satisfied with their career choice but most suffer mental and physical fatigue, which is often caused by excessive workloads.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2017
• ONSFlexible Nurse Practitioners Solve Workforce Shortages The multidisciplinary nurse practitioner provides a flexible, innovative solution to workforce shortages in oncology care that might otherwise reduce the quality of patient care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2017
• ONSExcitement Builds as ONS Congress Nears Opening Day Members of the Oncology Nursing Society will converge on Denver for the 2017 Annual Congress, where they can immerse themselves in diverse pathways of interest that collectively advance patient care.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2017