Medscape's Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses allows readers to seek general information from Carolyn Buppert, MSN, JD about legal or professional nursing issues, including advanced practice ...

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Recently, the federal government announced that nursing and certain other health professions will not be recognized as professional degree programs. This decision could ...

Nursing associations in the U.S. are asking nurses and nurse practitioners across the country to flood the Department of Education with their comments, and their disappointment, in a portion of the ...

Reliance on academic merit for admission selection at nursing schools has led to disparities in health care for underserved communities. Using standardized test scores, grade point average and grades ...