A nurse practitioner, or NP, is authorized to perform many tasks that were once only the province of doctors. NPs are one of four types of advanced practice nurses, or APNs. The group also includes ...

In the early 1960s, medical professionals became concerned about an increasing shortage of family physicians. The concept of physician extenders was one of the solutions developed in response to the ...

Advanced Practice Nursing: The future is now It is time to upgrade our image, and unify our profession. Do not wait to be a part of health care's evolution. As America moves forward since the Supreme ...

Advanced practice registered nurses are earning more than $150,000, a new study indicates, with pay for the profession soaring as nurses in all fields take on more responsibilities once the sole ...

"Telenursing is the use of telemedicine technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice. Broader than telenursing, telehealth is the removal of time and distance barriers for the ...

Since the early 1900s, physicians have traditionally dominated the field of medicine, possessing the power to determine who can provide which services and largely influencing the laws controlling ...

When Alisha Johnson worked in a Texas hospital, she noticed the same elderly patients being repeatedly transferred from nearby nursing homes after their health had once again severely declined. "It ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was slower growth in the number of new waivers authorizing clinicians to provide buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. However, treatment capacity grew ...

Urology nursing has developed as a specialty over the past few decades in response to several factors, workload demands being a prime reason. Nurses are taking on additional roles and activities ...