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Nurse Anesthetists and Veterans Creative Writing
Pages:2 (288 words)
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Document Type:Creative Writing
Document:#83452825
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2201 Sweeney Drive
Clinton, Pennsylvania 15026
Dear Sir or Madam:
This letter is in response to an article that appeared in your newspaper on July 13, 2016 by the president of the Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Ann Culp, entitled "CRNAs battle tested." The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced its intentions to provide full practice authority for its advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to improve the accessibility and quality of care provided our nation's heroic veterans. In response to this announcement, a number of national organizations, including the American Nurses Association, the Federal Trade Commission, the American Hospital Association, the American Association for Retired Persons and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have all joined in supporting…
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Advocacy updates. (2016). American Nurses Association. Retrieved from http://www.rnaction.org/site/Pagenavigator/NSTAT/nstat_homepage.
Culp, A. (2016, July 13). CRNAs battle-tested. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), A-10.
Summers, L. (2016, May 1). Update: Transition to full practice authority for APRNs. American Nurse, 48(3), 11.
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