With physician staffing shortages and a lack of appointment openings across traditional primary care settings, patients are faced with inaccessibility to care. As a result, patients are looking beyond ...

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of-practice ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.

A meeting with a nurse practitioner prior to discharge could improve communication between hospital staff and primary care providers, easing the transition after hospitalization and improving patient ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The argument also fails to address broader policies that influence both NP and PCP behaviors. Policies that unjustifiably lead to ...

Growing global pressures mean the need for nurses working across primary and community care settings ‘has never been greater’ ...

Personnel costs ($90,514) of a primary care–embedded adolescent behavioral health nurse practitioner over 2 years were 63% of the potential revenue generated ($144,449). Objectives: To determine the ...

The pandemic has taught us about an economic and logistic concept that most people take for granted, if they’ve even thought about it at all: the global supply chain. Beginning early in the Covid-19 ...

This past summer, with a group of nurses at his side, President Barack Obama spoke about the critical role that nurses can play in health care reform. For a profession often relegated to the shadows ...

Researchers sought to estimate the level of burnout among nurses working in primary health care as well as assess the relationship between sociodemographic, employment-related, and personality ...

The primary care provider shortage is a national problem, and it’s particularly acute in Massachusetts. Some medical groups, ...