Granting full practice authority to nurse practitioners has benefits for both patients and nurses, says this nurse practitioner. For a long time, nurse practitioners (NP) have occupied a unique ...

Although nurses traditionally see themselves as holistic in their practice, young NPs may embrace the medical model as their first clinical guide. Brown and Olshansky studied the first transitional ...

April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

Letters: Readers respond to the British Medical Association’s warning that the increasing use of ‘non-doctors’ in medical roles is unsafe ...

The RCN has vowed to ensure that advanced practice nursing is not ‘undervalued and diminished’ amid concerns raised around ...

COLUMBIA- In Missouri, the struggles for people looking for primary health care providers are becoming more and more of an issue. Especially for people residing in medical deserts all across Missouri ...

In the rapidly evolving healthcare field, nurse practitioners (NPs) are indispensable in providing quality patient care across various settings. As advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), NPs ...

It wasn’t until Darlene Sawicki was in her mid-30s and working in research at a Massachusetts General Hospital neurology clinic that she found her true calling. During a particularly intense clinical ...

Elizabeth Hug had a choice: wait months to see a doctor to treat her fibromyalgia or visit a nurse practitioner in the same office immediately. The Joliet resident decided sooner was better than later ...