Between 2008 and 2016, primary care providers increasingly relied on nurse practitioners amidst a shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas. With approximately 234,000 nurse practitioners ...

NPs again take No. 1 spot in U.S. News & World Report job ranking. Nurse practitioners (NPs) have once again garnered a top spot on a U.S. News & World Report job ranking, coming in first on its 2023 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The United States has a shortage of primary care doctors, and some policymakers want to fill the gap by expanding the role of nurse practitioners. But the two professions are engaged in a turf war ...

When nurse practitioner Payal Patel changed medical practices, patient Ni-Ima Lattimer went with her. The Hempstead woman said she’s more comfortable with her and other nurses than with physicians.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) -- They can diagnose and treat, prescribe medication, order tests, set a broken leg, give health advice and generally administer primary heath care. But don't call them "doctors.

Giving nurse practitioners the authority to prescribe buprenorphine has brought that gold standard treatment for opioid addiction to people who might not have had access to it before, according to a ...

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper ...

Gone, but not forgotten: Loretta Ford, a trailblazing visionary of nursing, has died. The centenarian was 104, leaving behind an influential legacy that has affected countless nurses. Born on Dec. 29, ...