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.

Nursing Times; 105: 40, xx-yy. This article outlines an initiative to develop an ophthalmic nurse practitioner’s role to carry out YAG laser peripheral iridotomy. It details the training and ...

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 ...

NPs with a background in family medicine, acute care, adult health, or internal medicine could be trained and utilized in primary care practices, dialysis centers, and CKD clinics. Predialysis care is ...

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 ...

The shortage of primary care physicians gives impetus to the argument that nurse practitioners should have an expanded role as the new federal health law provides insurance for up to 1 million ...

In medical practice, there traditionally has been a hierarchy of care providers, with physicians on top, supervising nurses. But more and more, nurses are finding a spot at the same level as doctors ...

Dr Jane O'Connell, Australia's first endorsed nurse practitioner specialising in emergency care, is leading the way in re-defining the role specialty nurse practitioners play in the health system. As ...

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 federal rule has quietly made nursing education financially inaccessible. The Department of Education recently locked in place a 1960s-era list of “professions,” and nursing wasn’t on that list.