Advanced Practice Legal Issues

Prescribing is a core component of life as a nurse practitioner. While we advocate for lifestyle...

Thanks to the predicted surge in the number of medical offices and outpatient care facilities,...

As the kickoff to ThriveAP nears, our participating nurse practitioners are facing the NP...

By Jennifer Lankford, Labor and Employment Attorney

Nurse practitioners are newly allowed to prescribe buprenorphine (Suboxone) as part of the...

While the way nurse practitioners and physician assistants work when is comes to patient care looks...

We’ve all experienced the awkwardness of clinical learning as nurse practitioner students....

Do you look patients up on your state’s controlled substance monitoring database before writing...

Much to most nurse practitioner’s chagrin, many states require that NPs be ‘supervised by’ or...

A nurse practitioner I spoke with recently had a question about her NPI number. So, she searched...

It’s easy as a nurse practitioner to go throughout your workday with knowing exactly how you get...

Are nurse practitioners obligated to report domestic violence? This is a question I haven’t asked...