nurse practitioners

  • Read more: Scottish clinical guidelines on patients’ pressure ulcer care published

    Scottish clinical guidelines on patients’ pressure ulcer care published

    By John Tingle Failures in assessing the patient properly for pressure ulcers can result in adverse incident reports, complaints and even litigation. A look at medical malpractice lawyer web sites in both the UK and USA will reveal a number of attorneys offering specialism in pressure sore litigation and publishing compensation awards. In the NHS poor…

  • Read more: Updated Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Map

    Updated Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Map

    The Policy Surveillance Program staff has recently updated the Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Dataset on LawAtlas.org to include laws through May 2016. Fifty jurisdictions and the District of Columbia have laws pertaining to nurse practitioners’ scope of practice. In general, scope of practice laws regulate the autonomy nurse practitioners are given within their practice…