State responses to COVID-19: Potential benefits of continuing full practice authority for primary care nurse practitioners.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state governments removed the scope of practice restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs), allowing them to deliver care to patients without restrictions.

Purpose: To support policy makers' efforts to grant full practice authority to NPs beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, this manuscript summarizes the existing evidence on the benefits of permanently removing state-level scope of practice barriers and outline recommendations for policy, practice, and research.

Methods: We have conducted a thorough review of the existing literature.

Value of Nurse Practitioner Inpatient Hospital Staffing.

Background: Evidence indicates hospitals with better registered nurse (RN) staffing have better patient outcomes. Whether involving more nurse practitioners (NPs) in inpatient care produces better outcomes is largely unknown.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether the presence of more NPs produces better inpatient outcomes net of RN staffing.

Precepting nurse practitioner students in the graduate nurse education demonstration: A cross-sectional analysis of the preceptor experience.

Background: The Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration seeks to increase the number of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in clinical practice. With the overall increase in APRN programs and, particularly, enrollment in nurse practitioner (NP) programs, there is growing competition among students to secure quality clinical precepting experiences.

Purpose: This study describes NPs' and physicians' experiences with precepting APRN students within the Greater Philadelphia GNE Consortium.

How do surgical residents and non-physician practitioners play together in the sandbox?

Introduction: The reduction of resident work hours due to the 80-hour workweek has created pressure on academic health-care systems to find "replacement residents." At the authors' institution, a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), collectively referred to as non-physician practitioners (NPPs), were hired as these reinforcements, such that the number of NPPs (56) was almost twice the number of clinical categorical surgery residents (37). An experienced leader with national credibility was hired to run the NPP program.