Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Advanced Practice Providers
Non-Physician Clinicians
With sixteen million more Americans expected to gain health care coverage in the coming years as a result of the Affordable Care Act, access to actual health care providers may become more difficult. This may be especially true for patients Continue Reading …
The Future of Nursing
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed a diverse committee comprised of nursing leaders across the country to study the future needs of the nursing profession. The Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Continue Reading …
Competence and capacity: the right practitioner for the right procedure?
British researchers conducted a pragmatic, randomized trial aiming to compare the effectiveness of doctors and nurses performing upper and lower endoscopy. The authors enrolled 29 hospitals comparing 67 doctors to 30 nurses who performed endoscopic procedures on 1888 randomized patients Continue Reading …