As the need for efficient healthcare increases daily, nurse practitioners are in high demand and physicians are learning to share their territory. Although physicians have around four times more ...

Diane Smith, right, graduate program director of the UIndy School of Nursing, oversees a nursing student in a simulation exercise. Smith says nurses are the captain of a patient’s caregiving team.

At a time when there’s a massive shortage of physicians throughout the country and wait times to get an appointment could take weeks, many people are turning to nurse practitioners to help with their ...

This past summer, with a group of nurses at his side, President Barack Obama spoke about the critical role that nurses can play in health care reform. For a profession often relegated to the shadows ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - If you haven't had an appointment with a nurse practitioner yet, chances are you will within the next few years. Nurse practitioners, or NPs, rank as one of the fastest ...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) increasingly are providing more primary care to nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and a recent study examined the potential impact ...

In every profession, there are those who pursue advanced education and training to achieve top-level expertise. Nurse practitioner (NP) is the title given to nurses who attain such proficiency in ...

A new student loan proposal limits loan spending for students getting degrees that aren’t classified as “professional.” ...

Despite the fact that the two have different types of training, in practical situations, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are increasingly being called upon to do similar work ...

The United States has a shortage of primary care doctors, and some policymakers want to fill the gap by expanding the role of nurse practitioners. But the two professions are engaged in a turf war ...

As the reality of the nation's shortage of primary-care physicians sinks in, a growing number of states are looking beyond the daunting task of finding more physicians and considering the roles of ...