As the need for efficient healthcare increases daily, nurse practitioners are in high demand and physicians are learning to share their territory. Although physicians have around four times more ...

At a time when there’s a massive shortage of physicians throughout the country and wait times to get an appointment could take weeks, many people are turning to nurse practitioners to help with their ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - If you haven't had an appointment with a nurse practitioner yet, chances are you will within the next few years. Nurse practitioners, or NPs, rank as one of the fastest ...

Diane Smith, right, graduate program director of the UIndy School of Nursing, oversees a nursing student in a simulation exercise. Smith says nurses are the captain of a patient’s caregiving team.

This past summer, with a group of nurses at his side, President Barack Obama spoke about the critical role that nurses can play in health care reform. For a profession often relegated to the shadows ...

The role of the nurse practitioner (NP) has grown increasingly important in the provision of high-quality, patient-centric, team-based care. The number of new NP graduates has grown annually for the ...

In every profession, there are those who pursue advanced education and training to achieve top-level expertise. Nurse practitioner (NP) is the title given to nurses who attain such proficiency in ...

In medical practice, there traditionally has been a hierarchy of care providers, with physicians on top, supervising nurses. But more and more, nurses are finding a spot at the same level as doctors ...

A long-time nurse from Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County is the new nurse practitioner at a local cancer speciality ...

As the reality of the nation's shortage of primary-care physicians sinks in, a growing number of states are looking beyond the daunting task of finding more physicians and considering the roles of ...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) increasingly are providing more primary care to nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and a recent study examined the potential impact ...