Before the beginning of this decade, indications of the growing demand for advanced practice nurses was everywhere, based on people living longer, medical science increasing its toolbox of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system has announced a final rule that will grant full practicing authority to some types of advanced practice registered nurses, with the exception of ...

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 patients come to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for care, “they come here for our reputation,” said Vivian Crowder, APRN, FNP-C, AOCNP, Anderson’s manager of Advanced Practice Providers, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing staff leaders scrambled to find online platforms that would allow providers to treat patients via telehealth. A new paper published in The Nurse Practitioner ...

The following is an excerpt from a new book, Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, by Rebekah Bernard, MD, and Niran Al-Agba, MD. What is the ...