Nurse practitioners: They'll save your life... and money

By Hook Contributor | contributor@readthehook.com

By Dorrie Fontaine

At long last, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued its decision on Health Care Reform. And this, as they say, changes everything.

But not nursing.

These are heady days to be a nurse. With a two-year-old mandate from the Institute of Medicine calling for us to practice at the highest level of our profession, achieve independence from physician oversight as we diagnose, prescribe, and treat sick patients, and care for patients with increasingly complex cases, nurses are poised like never before to continue their march toward the center of health care delivery.

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