Medscape's Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses allows readers to seek general information from Carolyn Buppert, MSN, JD about legal or professional nursing issues, including advanced practice ...

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Recently, the federal government announced that nursing and certain other health professions will not be recognized as professional degree programs. This decision could ...

A misguided proposal would limit student loans for advanced nursing degrees when shortages are already severe, guest columnist Luci Baines Johnson writes.

DALLAS — Nursing associations in the U.S. are asking nurses and nurse practitioners across the country to flood the Department of Education with their comments, and their disappointment, in a portion ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...

The Trump administration proposal would limit student loans for advanced nursing degrees, shrinking the pipeline of nurses and faculty when shortages are already severe, Luci Baines Johnson writes.