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Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all.

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Research presented at AANP 2025 discusses strategies for reducing maternal mortality, including addressing cardiovascular, ...

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number ...

Measuring Nurse Practitioner Productivity Jacqueline Rhoads; Laurie Anne Ferguson; Cynthia A. Langford Disclosures Dermatology Nursing. 2006;18 (1):32-38. Defining and Assessing Productivity ...

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On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a ...

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a condition where the force of blood against your artery walls is consistently high. A chronic and serious condition, High BP can be controlled ...

A nurse practitioner prescribed Ava 100 mg of gabapentin to be taken three times a day and 15 mg of morphine to be taken every four hours as needed, according to a civil complaint.