Here at ADVANCE we’re working on a news report about a Florida nurse practitioner who is under criminal indictment for filling out blank prescriptions signed beforehand by her supervising physician. NPs in Florida still have no controlled substances prescriptive authority. Although it was just months after graduation and presigning prescriptions ...

When I was a little girl in the early 1960s, my mother worked at a psychiatric hospital as a nurse's aid. Times were different then, and she wore a starched white dress, white hose and white clinic oxfords. I thought she was so beautiful and wanted to be just like her. I even set up a doll hospital in my room, taking care of each ''patient'' ...