Should NPs in PA be allowed full practice authority?
In a Philadelphia Inquirer article, Penn Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel explained why passage of this bill would improve access to cost-effective care by allowing NPs to take on more tasks independently, including prescription-writing. Currently NPS, have “collaborative agreements” with physicians - a form of oversight.
Opponents maintain that physicians, who undergo more training, should keep providing supervision. The President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society offers his take on why things should stay the way they are currently. You can read the article here: http://bit.ly/2bQHaIu
More stories
-
CHOPR: Surgical Patients with Dementia Fare Better with Higher Educated Nurses
A new study found that surgical patients with coexisting Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are more likely to die within 30 days of admission and to die following a complication compared with patients without ADRD. Having more nurses with at least a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the bedside improved the likelihood of good outcomes for all patients, but it had a much greater effect for patients with ADRD.
-
CHOPR Associate Director, Dr. Eileen Lake, Named Editor-in-Chief of Research in Nursing & Health
Research in Nursing & Health is a top-tier, peer-reviewed journal that publishes a wide range of research to inform the practice of nursing and other health disciplines. “Becoming editor-in-chief of RINAH is a dream come true as it has always been the nursing research journal that best fits my broad view of nursing science,’ said Dr. Lake.
-
New Research Finds About Half of Parents Use Cell Phones While Driving with Young Children in the Car
A new study from a team of researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Nursing found that in the previous three months, about half of parents talked on a cell phone while driving when their children between the ages of 4 and 10 were in the car, while one in three read text messages and one in seven used social media.