Over time, the public has begun increasingly recognizing and embracing nurse practitioners as healthcare providers. “I think we’ve come a long way,” said Ulrike Muench, PhD, MSN, an associate ...

Transform your nursing career with our dynamic, 63-credit BSN to DNP Family Nurse Practitioner program—delivered entirely online in an asynchronous format that adapts to your busy schedule. This ...

Graduates of the MSN Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice to diagnose and manage the health problems of newborns, infants and toddlers up to the age ...

Jessie is a nurse practitioner (NP) excited to realize her dream of opening a primary care clinic in her hometown in Kansas. Growing up, she noticed how difficult it was for her neighbors, friends, ...

Some nurses and physicians opposed the nurse practitioner model. Certain nursing leaders believed that nurse practitioners were no longer practicing nursing, that the title was "ambiguous and ...

With the nursing workforce in New York projected to face a shortage of more than 40,000 nurses by 2030, and the continuing disparities in health care access — especially in underserved areas like the ...

Jul. 27—Martha Schwebach is remembered for being a trailblazer in nursing and rural health care in New Mexico. Schwebach — considered to be the nation's first family nurse practitioner — opened a ...

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