With physician staffing shortages and a lack of appointment openings across traditional primary care settings, patients are faced with inaccessibility to care. As a result, patients are looking beyond ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

The views of primary and community care nurses are being sought by the Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) Think Tank ...

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 ...

The pandemic has taught us about an economic and logistic concept that most people take for granted, if they’ve even thought about it at all: the global supply chain. Beginning early in the Covid-19 ...

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.

A meeting with a nurse practitioner prior to discharge could improve communication between hospital staff and primary care providers, easing the transition after hospitalization and improving patient ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The argument also fails to address broader policies that influence both NP and PCP behaviors. Policies that unjustifiably lead to ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are pushing back against new reforms from the Trump administration that would lower borrowing ...