I will write about the time and tuition required to become a Nurse Practitioner (NP), as well as available subsidies and ...

For-profit schools appear to be playing an outsized role in training the nation's expanding nurse practitioner workforce, ...

The United States is short on primary care doctors, and for years nurse practitioners have been the workforce filling that gap. NPs now diagnose illness, prescribe medication, and manage chronic ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC), is pleased to announce the National Certification Corporation (NCC) has been granted reaccreditation for their Neonatal Nurse ...

New partnership connects NP practice owners with trusted quality certification resources and expands joint educational programming for the NP entrepreneur ...

A new study finds that nearly one-third of newly licensed nurse practitioners in four large U.S. states were educated at ...

Growth in the demand for health-related occupations can be attributed to severe shortages of health care providers and the pressing medical needs of an aging population. Qualified nurses are needed ...

The history of nurse practitioners, their efforts to achieve provider status, and lessons learned from their activism are discussed. The nurse practitioner profession arose out of a need to meet a ...

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 ...

The number of nurse practitioners rose to 190,000 from 91,000 from 2010 to 2017, Montana State University researchers said in the February journal Health Affairs, triggering a shortage of registered ...