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

a nurse practitioner in 2020. One day, he and his wife received a bill for a procedure with a medical doctor that, as a nurse, he knew did not take long to perform or analyze and should not cost ...

By Clay Risen Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical ...