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Sandra Ryan Elected to Fellowship of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

By Mary Carole McMann, MPHThis article appeared in the January/February 2012 issue of Nurse Practitioner World News. In November of 2011, Sandra “Sandy” F. Ryan, MSN, CPNP, FAANP, became the first nurse practitioner (NP) to be elected to the Fellowship of the College of P .... Read More

Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make History

By Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAANThis article appeared in the November/December 2011 issue of The American Journal For Nurse Practitioners. “For changing the healthcare paradigm, and for changing lives, you, Loretta C. Ford, are inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.� .... Read More

Consider Alternate Revenue Streams

By Melanie Balestra, NP, ESQThis article appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of Practice Management: A Business Guide for Nurse Practitioners. For nurse practitioners (NPs) looking to supplement their existing income, there are several traditional and nontraditional avenues to c .... Read More

Sex Rx: Vaginal Lubrication - Exploring Options

By Susan Kellogg-SpadtFrom Women's Healthcare Journal, Annual Primary Care Edition: 2011 Although the amount of moisture or dryness that a woman and her partner prefer during sexplay may vary among couples, cross-cultural research suggests that most women consider a mode .... Read More

Press Release: Gale Adcock Re-elected

Nurse Practitioner Gale Adcock was re-elected to a second term on the Cary Town Council, continuing to represent one-quarter of the town’s 140,000 citizens. Adcock won with an overwhelming majority of more than 65% of the votes cast and out-raised .... Read More

Integrating a CAM Therapeutic Strategy for Hypertension

By Kikikipa Kretzer, PhD, APNTraditional approaches used to manage the complexities of hypertension (HTN) have achieved modest success. Most persons with HTN in the United States have blood pressure that is uncontrolled or inadequately controlled on medications, or they are unaw .... Read More

Indications for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy

By Michelle Andrews, MSN, NP-C and Melissa Williams, MSN, NP-C Many primary-care nurse practitioners see patients with coronary artery disease and/or heart failure, some of whom may be at particular risk for sudden cardiac death. Patients with such a risk must be identified and referred for an evaluation to dete .... Read More

64-Slice CT Versus Coronary Angiography to Diagnose Coronary Artery Disease

By Elaine S. Marshall, RN, PhD; Patricia Coppett Duncan, MSN, FNP, MBA; Gina Stokes Winnette, MSN, FNP; Jessica Lamb, MSN, FNP; and Misty Willis, MSN, FNPCoronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in US men and women, and a major health problem throughout the world. Conventional invasive coronary angiography (ICA) continues to be the standard modality for diagnosing CAD. With new adva .... Read More

Use of the Vulnerable Populations Conceptual Model to Assess the Impoverished Elderly

By Mary Atkinson Smith, DNP, FNP-BCThe author has identified the impoverished elderly as a vulnerable population, and discusses application of the vulnerable populations conceptual model (VPCM) to assess the risks and health status of this group. Using this model to assess the impover .... Read More

Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make History

By Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAAN“For changing the healthcare paradigm, and for changing lives, you, Loretta C. Ford, are inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.” With those words, the founding mother of the nurse practitioner movement was acknowledged for her leaders .... Read More