The Act applies to APRN and PA non-compete agreements entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after October 1, 2023.

Easing APRN and PA limits can lower costs, boost efficiency, and relieve physician shortages Proposed fixes include setting the interaction between physicians and PAs at the practice level ...

The rise in nurse practitioner- and physician assistant-led care will not be undone, according to this doctor who sees it as a good thing as long as training and experience are not neglected.

One PA respondent complained that NPs get "more opportunities and preference," another pointed to PA-NP "turf issues," and a third griped about NPs' "strong unions," which have stoked more ...

3. Over a six-year period through 2015, the NP field increased by 10 percent. Between 2014 and 2015, the NP workforce increased 20.3 percent. More articles on healthcare: The 20 Republicans who voted ...

The findings “should support increased utilization of PAs and NPs working at the top of their license in emergency departments,” commented Lamont Hunter, MPH, PA-C, who is immediate past ...

Potential NP/PA students can gain experience in a variety of settings. NP candidates may already be experienced RNs, which satisfies the healthcare experience criteria.

Survival among patients in an ICU cared for by PA and acute care NP was 92.2% compared with 88.6% among those cared for in an adjacent ICU by a team of residents (P =0.047), with all other ...