The history of nurse practitioners, their efforts to achieve provider status, and lessons learned from their activism are discussed. The nurse practitioner profession arose out of a need to meet a ...

Nurse practitioner is the No. 1 job for 2025, the second year it achieved that ranking. Nurse practitioners have a strong career outlook, with job growth projected to increase by 46% by 2033.

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

So Ford, who died Jan. 22 at the age of 104, charted a stealth approach. Rather than confronting or challenging physicians, ...

Hospitalists at Providence St. Vincent in Portland reached a tentative agreement with the hospital’s management amid a strike ...

The bill, the PRECEPT Nurses Act, comes after a Bloomberg Businessweek series documented the growing role nurse practitioners play in the US health-care industry and the pitfalls ...

Since the inception of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in the 1960s, NPs have thrived in the delivery of primary healthcare and nurse case management. Despite patient satisfaction with NPs' style ...

I’ve always worked in primary health care. We do a lot of the same thing as doctors would do,' says local nurse practitioner Wendy McCrady ...

As a nurse practitioner with extensive clinical, academic and advocacy experience, I must address several misconceptions in Dr. Richard Feldman’s Jan. 29 piece (“Physicians still best option for ...

Contact an enrollment advisor to determine eligibility. Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners are Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) educated to provide a full range of primary care ...

I grew up in Austintown and Madison grew up in Canfield.” In December last year, the two psychiatric nurse practitioners ...