Positioning Advanced Practice Registered Nurses for Health Care Reform: Consensus on APRN Regulation

Journal of Professional Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 340-348

  Stanley, Joan M ^a   Werner, Kathryn E ^b   Apple, Kathy ^a  

^a AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING   (United States)

^b National Council of State Boards of Nursing ^*

Author keywords

Advanced practice registered nurses; Health care reform; Policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LEGAL ASPECT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; POLITICS;

HEALTH CARE REFORM; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; POLITICS;

EID: 70450045938     PISSN: 87557223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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