The training debate
Dr. Christopher Garofalo is included in an article on Medical Economics that addresses the debate on whether or not NPs have received qualified training to practice independently.
Nurses in N.C. can now be held liable for patient harm
North Carolina Supreme Court overturns a 93-year-old precedent that prevented nurses from being held liable for medical harm.
Training matters: small town ER doc makes limb-saving diagnosis missed by urgent care NP
Physicians train for at least 15,000 hours before we are permitted to practice independently, and one of the reasons is that it takes a long time and a lot of patient volume to be exposed to the many different presentations of disease processes to learn how to recognize true emergencies that need immediate interventions.
North Carolina PPP Member says legislators have been misled about the effectiveness of APRNs
North Carolina PPP member and founder of Take Medicine Back, Dr. Mitchell Li, is quoted in a story on how state legislators have been misled about the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses.