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Though doctors always get the credit, nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system. Nurses dedicate their careers to addressing societal health needs and ensuring ongoing education about health issues.

May 14, 2021 - 02:21 PM AHA yesterday voiced support for the Technical Reset to Advance the Instruction of Nurses Act (S.1568), bipartisan legislation that would prevent a Medicare payment error from affecting nursing and allied health education programs and direct graduate medical education.  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year discovered it had miscalculated payments to nursing and allied health education programs and direct GME based on Medicare Advantage use, and direct...

  MONTREAL -- As of Jan. 25, specialized nurse practitioners (IPS) will be able to diagnose and make treatment plans without the supervision of a doctor for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and lung disease and chronic obstructive disorders, as well as carry out pregnancy follow-ups. This "historic advance which "fully recognizes the skills of IPS" will result, according to Quebec, in better access to health care for everyone, said the office of Higher Education Minister Dani...