Health Law News
Date Posted: February, 2025
Loretta Ford pioneered the role of nurse practitioner helping to design the curriculum for nurse practitioner, first available in 1965 at the University of Colorado. Nurse practitioners are allowed to perform an expanded list of health care services including interpret medical tests, initiate and manage treatments, prescribe medications, refer patients to specialist doctors and, depending on their training and state regulations, perform certain routine medical procedures, such as inserting tubes to drain fluid from lungs.
Today, nurse-practitioner services are available across the country and overseas. About 385,000 nurse practitioners are working in the U.S., more than triple the total two decades ago.
See the full article at https://www.marlenegarvis.com/. If you are a nurse practitioner that requires legal representation for a workplace safety or violence issue, as well as other health care related employment issues, please contact Marlene Garvis to see if we can help.
Attorney for Nurse Practitioner Professional Licensure
With a distinguished legal career spanning over 35 years, Marlene Garvis has been involved in nearly all aspects of health care, including being the Chair of the Health Law Practice Group at a Twin Cities law firm, a past President of the Hennepin County Bar Foundation, past President of Minnesota Women Lawyers and a Founding Fellow of the Hennepin County Bar Foundation.
Marlene has been a frequent speaker on health law, health care, nurse licensing and regulatory matters, as well as employment issues for nurses. She is an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline Law School in St. Paul, has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and continues to speak to nursing students at St. Catherine University.
Marlene has represented clients in litigation, consultation and administrative proceedings for health care professional licensure, employment litigation, discipline and regulatory proceedings and nurse licensure hearings. To see Marlene's full professional bio, please visit https://www.marlenegarvis.com/marlene-garvis.php.
Marlene is a member of The American Association of Nurse Lawyers, specializing in nurse licensure hearings in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa as well as other legal issues in health care industry.