Nurse Practitioner Workforce & Utilization

Rural Primary Care

Healthcare Policy, State Regulations

Barriers to practice

Publications:

Owens, R., & Zwilling, J.G. (2019). Nurse practitioner workforce: An exemplar from

      one independent practice state. Journal of the American Association of Nurse

      Practitioners. (in review).  

Zwilling, J.G., & Wilson, F. (2019). Geographical variation in nurse practitioner scope

       of practice and state population health indicators. Nursing Outlook (under review). 

Nedegaard, R., & Zwilling, J. (2017). Promoting military cultural competence among

       civilian care providers. Social Sciences.

Zwilling, J.G. (2018). The nurse practitioner as rural healthcare provider. In C.

       Winters, & H. Lee (Eds.), Rural nursing: Theory, concepts, and practice, 5th ed.

        New York: Springer.

Zwilling, J.G. (2018). Multifaceted roles of the APRN. In K. Blair, & M. Jansen

       (Eds). Advanced Practice Nursing Core Concepts for Professional Role

        Development (6th ed.). New York: Springer.  

Zwilling, J.G. (2018). Advanced practice nursing in the healthcare setting:

        Organizational roles. In K. Blair, & M. Jansen (Eds). Advanced Practice Nursing:

        Core Concepts for Professional Role Development (6th ed.). New York: Springer.

Zwilling, J., & Owens, R. (2019). North Dakota nursing 2019: Understanding the

        Workforce. Chapter in Fifth Biennial Report: Health issues for the state of North

        Dakota.     

Zwilling, J., & Owens, R. (2017). North Dakota Nurse Practitioners 2017: 

         Understanding the Workforce. University of North Dakota, College of Nursing and

         Professional Disciplines.

Presentations:

Poster presentation of Where are we now? Practice-Level Utilization of Nurse

      Practitioners in Comparison with State-Level Regulations. MRNS, accepted 2019.

Poster presentation of The Association of Health Costs and Population Health with

      State Variation in Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice. Academy Health, accepted 2018.

Poster presentation of The Association of Health Costs and Population Health with

      State Variation in Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice. MNRS, accepted 2018.

BA, Nursing, The College of St. Scholastica

MS, Nursing, University of North Dakota

PhD, Nursing, in progress University of Nebraska Medical Center