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In 2013, the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) passed a resolution explicitly stating the need to build on the principles of primary health care (PHC), to promote PHC-based health systems, and to develop training for advanced practice nurses, as part of the strategy for achieving universal health coverage and universal health (1).
Implementation strategy for advanced practice nursing in primary health care in Latin America and the Caribbean/Estrategia para introducir la enfermeria de atencion avanzada en la atencion primaria de salud en America Latina y el Caribe/ Estrategia para a implementacao da enfermagem de praticas avancadas em atencao primaria a saude na America Latina e no Caribe
Recommendation: To meet the access needs of those suffering from opioid use disorders in acquiring medication-assisted treatment, recommendations exist to ensure advanced practice nurses are practicing to the greatest extent of their scope of practice in New Mexico with the appropriate education and training to prescribe and monitor Buprenorphine treatment (Strobbe & Hobbins, 2012).
The Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act and the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act
While there's debate over whether advanced practice nurses need to have docs peeking over their shoulders, there's little doubt that Massachusetts would see a health care traffic jam if patients had to depend solely on primary care doctors for their needs.
Filling health care gap; Trend sees advanced practice nurses sharing doctor caseloads
New Mexico is among the 17 states that, along with the District of Columbia, allow advanced practice nurses to provide health care without physician supervision.
Despite Changes, Nurses Push for Independence
Advanced practice nurses in Missouri can benefit women and childbearing families by actively supporting midwifery care in their communities.
Midwives in Missouri who's who?
The advanced practice nurse in nephrology nursing refers exclusively to those caring for patients.
Advanced practice in nephrology nursing
Just as the NP role was created in the primary care setting in response to economic conditions, a new role is emerging for the advanced practice nurse in acute care.
Emerging Role of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Acute Care
Advanced Practice Nurses Influence Survival of Elderly Cancer Patients
NURSING ECONOMIC$ DATA BANK
The Physician Executive: Why do we need Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates [CAPNA] in addition to the physicians who have been serving people in Manhattan?
The new health care team. (Part 2: Health Care Trends)
The most recent national figures available show the average salary for an advanced practice nurse is $52,532, compared to $36,400 for a registered nurse.
Growing Demand for Nurse Practitioners
A popular new feature of our monthly meetings involves a member who shares his/her history as an advanced practice nurse.
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