Nurse Practitioners News

• Medicare Will Likely Face Pushback on Physician Pay Changes CMS has unveiled a proposed overhaul of evaluation and management billing that may create 'winners and losers' among specialties, while leaving the 2018 MIPS reporting period unchanged.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Most Clinicians Know a Doctor Who Has Tried or Completed Suicide A Medscape poll finds that physicians, nurses, and medical students say depression, burnout, and stress are likely the three main contributors driving physician suicide.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• 11% of Nurses, NPs, PAs Claim Recent Sexual Harassment Leering, standing too close, and unwanted touching were the most-mentioned behaviors in a Medscape survey that asked about harassment in the past 3 years.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Opioids After Surgery: What Is the Right Number of Pills? As the opioid epidemic rages, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and researcher is leading an effort to curb overprescribing by offering procedure-specific guidelines to ensure that post-surgical patients leave the hospital with enough, but not too much, pain medication.
  Kaiser Health News, June 2018
• Hospital-at-Home Care Improved Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction Hospital-at-home care was linked to shorter length of stay and fewer readmissions and emergency department revisits; however, the model needs fine-tuning before widespread implementation, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Demand for Medical Specialists Increasing in US Demand for primary care physicians remains strong, but organizations are increasingly looking for medical specialists, a new Merritt Hawkins report finds.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Advanced Practice Provider Influx Will Reshape Primary Care Two-thirds of the healthcare providers joining the US workforce by 2030 will be nurse practitioners or physician assistants, which will change roles and relationships.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• 10% of Clinicians Sexually Harassed in Last 3 Years: Survey Among physicians, 7% said they were harassed. Twelve percent of residents reported they were harassed by more than seven people.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• NPs Increasingly Fill Primary Care Gaps Primary care practices increasingly employ nurse practitioners to help improve health care delivery, especially in rural areas, new data showed.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• DDW 2018'Practice-Changing' Reflux Technique in the Spotlight at DDW About 40% of patients taking proton pump inhibitors for gastroesophageal reflux have persistent symptoms despite treatment. A new option will be discussed at the upcoming Digestive Disease Week (DDW).
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• 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