If you're not following us on Facebook, ''like'' us and start sharing in the conversations! If you are, keep following and spread the word! This week, we posted the article ''Organizing and Investing to Expand Primary Care Availability with Nurse Practitioners'' by Peter J. Levin and Rick Bateman from Journal of Community Health to our ...

We are proud and excited to announce that ADVANCE for NPs & PAs is an official journal of the National Academy of Dermatology Nurse Practitioners (NADNP). This organization formed in late June and already has more than 1,300 members. We have dedicated a section of our recently launched dermatology and aesthetics specialty site to NADNP, ...

Nursing Economics just posted an advance copy of an article that will be published in its September/October issue, and it's easy to understand why. All advanced practice nurses will rejoice in this systematic review of literature published between 1990 and 2008, which concludes what NPs, CNSs, CNMs and CRNAs have known all along: They ...

Remember last year's release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the future of nursing? Well, the movement for more NP autonomy across the nation is really gaining steam as a result. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is now selecting states to unleash ''regional action coalitions,'' known as RACs, to work on achieving universal ...