To help boost the pipeline for career development, RMU developed the Rocky Mountain University Nurse Practitioner hybrid programs for working nurses who want to advance their careers without stepping ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nurse practitioners exist with one foot in the world of nursing and another foot in the world of general practice care. They’re a little like nurses, a little ...

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Much of the growth among the nurse practitioner workforce is expected to be in emergency medicine and more complex clinical roles.

Providing adequate access to medical care in rural and poor urban areas is one of the longest-running problems in U.S. health care, and Pennsylvania is a case in point. About 35 percent of state ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA- In Missouri, the struggles for people looking for primary health care providers are becoming more and more of an issue. Especially for people residing in medical deserts all across Missouri ...

Elizabeth Hug had a choice: wait months to see a doctor to treat her fibromyalgia or visit a nurse practitioner in the same office immediately. The Joliet resident decided sooner was better than later ...