The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...

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

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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 ...

For Americans looking for a solid middle-class income as factory and office jobs wobble, the clearest path right now may run ...

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April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...

An NHS accreditation scheme that has been criticised as a barrier to employment for advanced practice nurses in general ...

About 23 percent of American adults live with a mental health condition, but only around 50 percent of these individuals ...

As a nurse practitioner, Martha Drohobyczer performs a screening test for cervical cancer on a woman in a treatment room, another of her patients, Louisa Piccoli, waits to see her about hormonal ...

A new law signed by Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Monday, March 30, adds a new group of health care professionals who can prescribe ...

Advanced practice nurses have a progressive practice authority in Iowa, but leaders say there's still work to be done to explain their roles and allow them to act within the full extent of their ...