Rupert Hoppenbrouwers, senior dento-legal adviser at the Dental Defence Union (DDU), discusses what dental professionals need to know about scope of practice. The General Dental Council (GDC) is ...

Allowing autonomy for advanced practice practitioners continues to be contested state by state. At the beginning of this year, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ...

Removing barriers to PA Practice does not increase medical malpractice payments over 10 year period (2010-2019). Removing restrictive laws and regulations to PA scope of practice improves access to ...

Tom Norfolk, general dental practitioner and Vice-Chairman of the Dental Defence Union's (DDU's) board of management and Greta Barnes, senior claims handler at the DDU, explain some of the key ...

Two hospitals in California in recent months have been cited by state inspectors for allowing certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) to practice beyond their scope, leading to one hospital ...

The authors compare advanced practice providers’ education, training, scope of practice, and quality of care with that of physicians. A framework is essential to promote team-based primary care. Nurse ...

A working paper that's likely to spur debate found that nurse practitioners (NPs) used more resources and had worse patient outcomes compared with physicians in the emergency department (ED), and will ...

Maryland's main physician group is working to modify a new state law that expands the scope of practice for audiologists. "Occasionally, these things happen," Gene Ransom III, president of MedChi, the ...