Last year at this time, I attended the signing of a key law expanding NP privileges in Pennsylvania. Milling about before the ceremony, I was buttonholed by a dental hygienist hoping to spread the word about the valuable work those practitioners do. Gov. Rendell was signing another law that day eliminating the legal requirement that dental ...

Am Arizona bill to block NPs from performing aspiration abortions failed by a vote of 14 to 12 in the Senate this session. The Douglas Daily Dispatch reported on legislative action in Arizona, including this bill, in ''Arizona Legislative Briefs.'' The Tucson Daily Star reported on it here. One NP in particular, an employee of Planned ...

Members of the ADVANCE for Nurse Practitioners staff, namely myself and Managing and Web Editor Jill Rollet, are in attendance at the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Over 3,500 inquisitive NPs are bustling about the grandiose new Gaylord on the Potomac resort and ...

On June 17, the AMA adopted resolutions at their annual House of Delegates meeting, including a resolution to ban the sale of tobacco products in stores that operate retail health clinics. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog (read the post) spoke with William A. Dolan, a surgeon on the AMA board of trustees, who claims that selling tobacco in ...

The press release below hit my inbox this morning. Whatever you think of the single-payer national health insurance model, support for it is growing among people with influence.Lots of folks have their fingers crossed for real health care reform after this fall's elections. Nurse practitioners are such a good deal that they're being included in ...

In an attempt to get adequate health care to rural and underserved areas, Ontario is planning to set up 26 nurse-led clinics in the province. One is already in operation in the city of Sudbury. But according to an article in last week's Daily Observer, the Ontario Medical Association is ''concerned perhaps about the level of contact that nurse ...

The Kansas Medical Society (KMS) put forth a resolution to the American Medical Society House of Delegates concerning retail health clinics because ''The proliferation of 'in store' or 'retail' health care clinics poses multiple dilemmas to Kansas physicians.'' The KMS stated the following: ''The Kansas Medical Society ask the KMS ARNP Task ...

Here’s a health care reform from Japan that’s right out of Orwell. According to an article in today’s New York Times, a new national law requires Japanese companies to measure the waists of their employees, employees’ family members and retirees 40 to 74 years old. Local governments are charged with measuring anyone who falls between the cracks. ...

Several state delegations of the American Medical Association have proposed resolutions that would limit NP education and NP practice. The AMA House of Delegates will gather to consider these resolutions at its annual meeting, which will take place this week from June 14 to 18. Three resolutions could be potentially ...

Take Care Health issued a formal response to an FTC report that stated concerns about proposed regulation of retail health clinics in Illinois. The FTC says that proposed regulations could cause ''undue and potentially costly limitation'' on retail health clinics. In a press release, the FTC states, ''Staff concludes the letter by ...