Why are there laws regulating nursing?

Oct 3, 2014

The practice of nursing requires specialized knowledge, skill, and independent decision making. Nursing careers take widely divergent paths – practice focus varies by setting, by type of client, by different disease, therapeutic approach or level of...

Illinois Center for Nursing

Sep 25, 2014

Pursuant to Section 75-10 of the Nurse Practice Act, there is created the Illinois Center for Nursing to address issues of supply and demand in the nursing profession, including issues of recruitment, retention, and utilization of nurse manpower...

Most Common Legal Issues in Nursing

Sep 19, 2014

All nurses should know their state's laws and ethics, as well as understand how not obeying them  is going to affect their profession. Please take a second and read these five most common legal issues to avoid lawsuits and liability 1. Signatures...

Study notes five unnecessary procedures in emergency care

Sep 18, 2014

A top-five of emergency medicine procedures that are of low value and could help control costs if providers do not order them was developed as part of a published study.  The cost of medical care in the U.S. is growing at an unsustainable rate and the tests,...

FDA: New opioid overdose treatment can be administered at home

Sep 18, 2014

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family members or caregivers to treat a person known or suspected to have had an opioid overdose. Evzio (naloxone hydrochloride injection) rapidly delivers a single dose of the...