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

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the saying goes. Yet high-quality preventive care is out of reach for ...

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 ...

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

The family of an 11-year-old girl who died in Illinois was awarded $20.5 million after filing a wrongful death lawsuit, ...

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.

The family of Ava Wilson, an Illinois 11-year-old cancer survivor, was awarded $20.5M after she died from lethal morphine levels given by her NP, attorneys say.

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.

Nurse practitioners are not trying to replace doctors — they’re trying to meet patients’ needs, wherever those patients are, ...