Nurse practitioners are not trying to replace doctors — they’re trying to meet patients’ needs, wherever those patients are, an expert said.

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number of geriatricians declines.

As health care needs continue to climb across New Mexico, nurse practitioners are stepping up to fill the gap.

Belmont Family Medical Clinic and North Mississippi Health Services are excited to announce the addition of Sheri Patterson, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Monique Chatman is a nurse practitioner at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center where her daily duties ...

Adult/gerontological acute care nurse practitioners work in emergency departments, tertiary care settings, intensive care units, trauma centers and specialty medicine areas treating patients with ...

Family nurse practitioners work in a variety of settings and are also well-suited to rural populations, where specialty care may not always be available. The family nurse practitioner program at Saint ...

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 ...

As the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) evolves, the need to demonstrate productivity becomes more important. Productivity data provides NPs with practice statistics to generate business or use ...

The Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (PACNP) program at the Orvis School of Nursing (OSN) prepares advanced practice nurses to provide comprehensive, high-acuity care for pediatric patients ...

The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program at the Orvis School of Nursing (OSN) prepares advanced practice nurses to provide compassionate, holistic mental health care across the ...

Hawke’s Bay woman Lei Johnson was the first nurse practitioner in New Zealand to become an accredited forensic examiner. Previously, all forensic examiners had been doctors and “it wasn’t ...