Nurse Practitioner Business Practice and Legal Guide, Seventh Edition is a must-have resource for every new or current nurse practitioner (NP). It explains and analyzes the legal issues relevant to nurse practitioners. The Seventh Edition was updated to include additional information on documentation requirements for avoiding malpractice and new case studies related to risk management. In addition, it provides the latest state-by-state laws, including regulatory developments and prosecutions of nurse practitioners, and new case analyses and lessons learned from those cases. The Seventh Edition also offers discussions of NP competencies, how the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree relates to NPs, the differences in primary care and acute care NPs, definitions of medical bio-ethics terminology, malpractice cases and the lessons to learn from them, emerging issues in health policy, guidelines around prescribing opioids and controlled drugs, clinical performance measures, and more.