Nurse Practitioner Practice in 2012: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Tomorrow

Making nursing work: breaking through the role confusion of advanced practice nursing

“…The consistent challenge in dealing with the international literature on the topic of advanced practice nursing is the failure to differentiate the nurse practitioner from other advanced roles in nursing. This is emerging as a priority in response to the move in several countries (Towers et al. 2003, RNABC 2004, Canadian Nurses Association 2006, Gardner et al.…”

Recognition, Regulation, Scope of Practice: Nurse Practitioners’ Growing Pains

“…It has primarily been our professional organizations, of which the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners is one, that have fought our battles, celebrated our successes, and pointed out the next areas we should focus on. Our current status, detailed by Phillips (2010) and forecasted by Towers, Dempster and Counts (2003), suggests there is still work to do. Not all states in the US afford NPs the rights to full prescriptive authority, autonomous practice, and freedom from physician supervision.…”