Western University is expanding its nurse practitioner program and launching a new primary care certificate to help registered nurses upskill and address Ontario’s health-care needs.

In the United Kingdom, the education for nurse prescribing is delivered within a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Although prescribing courses are regularly evaluated, there has been little ...

The move will allow registered nurses to take part in new training programs that will qualify them to prescribe medications and is designed to address critical shortages across the healthcare sector.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2017 nurse practitioners and physician assistants will be able to prescribe controlled substances. The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Rick Scott, will allow nurse practitioners and PAs ...

The new rules are part of a move billed as one of the biggest changes to nursing regulation in decades and one that has been years in the making. However, to be able to prescribe drugs, RNs are first ...