Medical practices with more advanced practice practitioners, nurse practitioners and other non-physician providers are more profitable and productive, according to a new report. While primary-care ...

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 ...

Some education advocates fear that losing a pipeline of advanced nursing practitioners to serve as college faculty also could lead to fewer registered and advanced nurses and other caregivers with two ...

As a nurse practitioner, Martha Drohobyczer performs a screening test for cervical cancer on a woman in a treatment room, another of her patients, Louisa Piccoli, waits to see her about hormonal ...

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 ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...

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 ...