Nearly three years ago, the passage of California Bill AB 890, effective January 1, 2023, set in motion a future pathway for qualified ...

The transition from RN to nurse practitioner requires navigating identity shifts while managing increased clinical ...

Northwestern State University has received a $494,755 continuation award from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to certify more nurses as Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse ...

Nurse practitioners are bridging the gap in geriatric care as the number of geriatricians declines, addressing patients' needs effectively.

NPs are increasingly important to the US healthcare system, but getting the respect and recognition that should come with that role is still a challenge.

As health care needs continue to climb across New Mexico, nurse practitioners are stepping up to fill the gap.

What are the qualifications required for nurse practitioners to obtain independent prescriptive authority in Oklahoma? Oklahoma’s new law, effective in November 2025, allows certain nurse ...

Oklahoma’s new law, effective in November 2025, allows certain nurse practitioners to prescribe medications without physician supervision, a move aimed at expanding healthcare access, especially ...

News On 6’s MaKayla Glenn spoke with Shelby Pope, a Skiatook-base nurse practitioner who says this change will make a big difference for both patients and small practices like hers.

A former nurse practitioner has pled guilty to her role in Arizona's massive Medicaid fraud schemes that bilked taxpayers of billions.

Nurse practitioners are educated and trained to diagnose, treat and prescribe patients which this year marks 30 years in the state of Maine.

“Nothing good comes from comfort zones,” Megan Pratt, associate professor and family nurse practitioner track leader at the University of Nevada, Reno, said. “Great things come when you put yourself ...