Nurse Practitioners

Teacher pay, firearm safety and healthcare spending are among the top issues Florida leaders listed as they made their opening statements on the first day…

Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee next week, a month after a fight over healthcare funding caused an abrupt end to the regular legislative session.…

A plan to expand the powers of advanced registered nurses hasn’t yet caught on in the legislature, but eased out of a House Health panel Wednesday. The…

The Florida House is cobbling together several different health-related bills in the hope the combined proposal will sway the Senate to vote for them. But…

Florida’s powerful physician lobby group is coming out against a proposal that would allow nurses to take on additional roles and duties. The proposal…

The federal Health Resources and Services Administration says at least 55 million people around the country live in areas that lack an adequate supply of…

Lawmakers are considering legislation that would give nurses more authority to prescribe common medicines instead of reserving that privilege for doctors.…