If you desire to work in healthcare, a career as a nurse practitioner (NP) or physician assistant (PA) could be a good fit. While both occupations focus on providing top notch medical care ...

So Ford, who died Jan. 22 at the age of 104, charted a stealth approach. Rather than confronting or challenging physicians, she teamed up with one of them, Henry K. Silver, a pedi ...

She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, ...

Nurse practitioners can be found in a variety of settings, such as within clinics, and hospitals. Many are also branching out ...

CORRECTION: This story incorrectly identified the occupation of Rep. Josephine Garcia. She is a nurse practitioner. Reporter ...

One family nurse practitioner says the work-life balance and ability to work in different specialties are aspects that draw ...

Amid resistance within the medical community, she helped transform the way millions of Americans receive their health care.

Dr. Loretta Ford, a trailblazing visionary of nursing, leaves behind an influential legacy that has affected countless nurses.

The province has been under pressure from health-care advocates and political opponents to tackle the rise of private nurse ...

Silver, a pediatrician at the University of Colorado, she started a novel program in 1965 providing advanced training to a handful of registered nurses who became the first nurse practitioners.

Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill to allow nurse practitioners to practice without the oversight of a medical doctor. They're helping to address one of the largest problems in Utah: health care access.

This local nurse practitioner experienced the challenges in securing a preceptorship firsthand before she launched a startup ...