Jeongyoung Park, et al., found that granting independent practice and prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners (NP) resulted in statistically significant increases in NP visits and decreases in both physician assistant (PA) and primary care provider visits, for community health centers with a high proportion of NPs and PAs along with the increased provision of support staff. PA scope of practice liberalization had no statistically significant effect on PA visits. Read article
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Medical Diaspora: An Underused Entity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries' Health System Development7/15/2019 This paper intends to develop an inventory that is as complete as possible, of the names of the LMIC medical diaspora organizations in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia and addresses their interests and roles in building the health system of their country of origin. Read article
To provide background for the National Academy of Medicine Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030, as it develops its follow-up to the Institute of Medicine's 2010 Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned a report on nursing's historic role in advancing health. This article, by Institute director Patricia Pittman, summarizes that report, which can be found in its entirety at www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2019/rwjf452706.
A report by Institute Director Patricia Pittman, says nursing leaders must strengthen a core set of nursing functions, embrace the idea of working at the intersection of other professions, and bolster nursing education with a stronger focus on population health, health equity and programs to ensure diversity in the nursing workforce. Read report
Authors of a NEJM Perspective New study say certain racial and ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in the U.S. physician workforce. Authors include Institute member Fitzhugh Mullan. Read article
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