Cross your fingers, New Jersey advanced practice nurses (APNs), because if Senator Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) succeeds in passing his recently introduced S-2354 — the “Consumer Access to Health Care Act,” — you will be able to prescribe medications without joint protocol with a consulting physician. Introduced Nov. 29 into the New Jersey State ...

  Are you feeling a little rundown, like you could use a vacation or maybe a whole new career? Do you find yourself being easily distracted on the job you’re growing so tired of? Is your nursing flame flickering? You’re certainly not alone, as many studies attest. But have you considered they way you’re feeling might cause you to be a ...

Those of you who’ve had long careers in acute care were probably the only members of the reading public who weren’t surprised by the Chicago Tribune’s report that 85 percent of hospital complaints were ignored by the state of Illinois last year. Grievances ranged from dirty needles, medication errors, sexual assault, and patient neglect. ...

What for many workers used to be a fall rite of completing paperwork and possibly adjusting to a new health insurance plan has become a harrowing tally of higher costs and reduced benefits. This year, it hit close to home: My weekly deduction for employer-provided health and dental coverage zoomed from less than $20 to more than $70 per week, a ...