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  • NPs Inspire Other Professions

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on July 24, 2008
  • Arizona NPs Continue Controversial Procedure

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 30, 2008
  • NP and PA Collaboration Discussed at Conference

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 27, 2008
  • AMA: Cigarettes and Banana Peels Are Hazardous

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 24, 2008
  • Another Backer for Single-Payer Health Insurance

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 24, 2008
  • Canada’s Health Minister Criticizes Physician ‘Territorialism’

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 16, 2008
  • Medical Society Blasts NPs

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 13, 2008
  • Don’t Be Metabo!

    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. ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 13, 2008
  • AMA Proposes Resolutions Affecting NPs, DNPs

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 10, 2008
  • Retail Clinic Responds to FTC Support

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 9, 2008
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