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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

evolution with providers offers hope for increasing efficiency within the health care delivery system. The ongoing change involves the expanding role of the certified registered nurse practitioner ...

The role of the nurse practitioner (NP) has grown increasingly important in the provision of high-quality, patient-centric, team-based care. The number of new NP graduates has grown annually for the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...