Aims The aims of the study were to describe the processes used to introduce advanced
practice nursing roles and factors that facilitated or hindered role implementation, examine …

Prescriptive authority is the ability of healthcare providers to prescribe specific medications,
including controlled substances. Physicians of either Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of …

The integration of artificial intelligence (Al) into healthcare holds immense potential to
enhance efficiency, quality, and access, but also elicits profound ethical and legal …

Psychiatric–mental health (PMH) advanced practice nurses have the education, certification,
and licensure to address the need for providers who can deliver the full scope of mental …

Nursing has been perceived as an apolitical profession. Although some advancements in
legislation and political engagement for nursing have occurred, the perception remains; it is …

Objective: To analyze the convergence of nurse's autonomy expressed in Brazilian and
Portuguese professional practice legislation. Method: Qualitative, social-historical …

The pandemic has stimulated growing interest in using advanced practice nurses such as
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to address growing primary care needs linked to population …

The discipline of systems thinking was developed to study and predict outcomes of large
multicomponent systems. It provides a lens to examine complex problems, such as global …

Objective: To analyze the convergence of nurse's autonomy expressed in Brazilian and
Portuguese professional practice legislation. Method: Qualitative, social-historical …

Healthcare is changing; the physician shortage continues to grow and the complexity of
health care continues to increase in relation to aging populations, lower reimbursement …