Safety fears as UK hospitals use nurses to cover for doctors due to shortage of medics

Exclusive: Advanced practitioners are being deployed to cover doctor rota gaps across the NHS, figures show ...
KXAN

School nurses may follow doctor’s orders instead of parent’s orders if a student needs medicine

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It may no longer be acceptable for parents to give school nurses permission to give over-the-counter medicine for a stomach ache or headache without a doctor’s note. “The Board of ...
Forbes

Why We’re Not Getting All The Medical Care We Need

Fourteen states put restrictions on nurse practitioners, and 11 do not allow them to practice at all. Even though the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, we actually ...
NPR

COVID made shortages of doctors and nurses even worse. Rural hospitals still struggle

Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital in Sigourney, Iowa, is small. The 14-bed hospital, in the southeastern part of the state, doesn't do surgeries or deliver babies. The small ...