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

Nurse practitioners are critical in treating older adults, increasingly filling a gap in health care as the ranks of geriatricians shrink.

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

Thousands of people in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., continue to rely on a temporary nurse practitioner clinic set up after the ...

Music has long been more than entertainment. For thousands of years, it’s played a powerful role in healing. Ancient shamans ...

The family of an 11-year-old girl who died in Illinois was awarded $20.5 million after filing a wrongful death lawsuit, according to the family’s legal team. The lawsuit was filed against Advocate ...

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

"Ava's body was yelling out to these clinicians, 'help me!', and they just ignored it," attorney Matthew Williams said.

Health policy researchers expect the number of uninsured to swell as the second Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress try to enact policies that explicitly roll back health coverage for ...

Productivity has been defined as a measure of output per unit of input. Within the discipline of nursing, productivity is described as proof or evidence of how efficient the NP is in his/her labor ...

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 ... “Instead of admitting Ava to the hospital to get her blood pressure, ...