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 ...

October 4, 2023 - According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nurse practitioners deliver "high quality health care in more than 1 billion patient visits each year," and as of ...

Health care and the expansion of access to care is a hot topic these days, from the halls of the state Capitol to Washington D.C. Regardless of the various proposals to expand coverage, one crisis ...

Gail Sadler, a nurse practitioner, provides a wide array of primary-care services at her private practice in Carrollwood, Fla., a community that has been buffeted for years by a physician shortage.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., Apr. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO) sent an open letter to President Biden requesting support for regulatory ...

Advanced nurse practitioners are ‘not a substitute for medical practitioners’ but a ‘welcome and vital role’, the nursing ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

As the coronavirus continues to rage, it remains critical to “raise the line” and expand capacity for the nation’s health care system. One key element are nurse practitioners (NPs), registered nurses ...

Nurse practitioners, like other healthcare workers, have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They helped battle a virus they at first knew little about and saw its disparate impact on ...

opioids State scope-of-practice laws impact the ability of nurse practitioners to prescribe medication-assisted treatment for patients with opioid use disorder. There is currently a shortage in the ...