Becky Peterson graduated this month with a degree that paves the way for her to examine patients, prescribe medication and make diagnoses, just like a physician. But she won’t be Dr. Peterson, and her ...

Readers respond to the British Medical Association’s warning that the increasing use of ‘non-doctors’ in medical roles is unsafe I am an advanced clinical practitioner in acute respiratory medicine, ...

The Ford government says it will not give nurse practitioners billing codes, but will work to bring them into the publicly funded health-care system as the federal deadline to ensure coverage for ...

This post was co-authored with Eric McDermott. A recent series of papers in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology journal focused on how scholars and practitioners can collaborate in order to ...

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number of geriatricians declines. The Health Resources and Services ...

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight people in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack ...

Over time, the public has begun increasingly recognizing and embracing nurse practitioners as healthcare providers. “I think we’ve come a long way,” said Ulrike Muench, PhD, MSN, an associate ...

The field of mental health presents a number of professionals to provide care for individuals. One member of that team is the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). In 1946, the United ...

If you’re serious about developing your project management career, you’ve probably already started to look at the potential qualifications that you should study to enhance your skills and build your ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these "NPs" often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...