advanced practice registered nurse

[ad-vanst prak-tis rej-uh-sterd nurs]

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a registered nurse who has had additional training, often in a medical specialty, and is qualified to carry out duties that registered nurses without additional training are not qualified to carry out. APRN

Word History and Origins

Origin of advanced practice registered nurse¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

The legislation allows an adult resident of Delaware who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and expected to die within six months to request lethal prescription drugs from a doctor or advanced practice registered nurse who has primary responsibility for the terminal illness.

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Republican state Rep. Dori Healey said she sponsored the bill because of her work as an advanced practice registered nurse when the legislature is out of session.

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Christine Kingsley, Health and Wellness Director of the Lung Institute and an advanced practice registered nurse, explains that "during intermittent fasting, the body attains lower levels of glucose more efficiently, catalyzing the activation of brain synapses and stress resistance. This allows the brain to function at its fullest capacity as humanly possible, which is why verbal memory is notably improved during and after the practice."

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The bill would also allow an advanced practice registered nurse, nurse-midwife or physician assistant to perform the most common type of in-clinic abortion known as an aspiration abortion in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy.

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In the September denial, the company noted that Singh’s new primary care provider, an advanced practice registered nurse in Louisville, had just begun treating her and did not know whether Singh’s ability to work was hampered.

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