As the demand for nurse practitioners in critical care units continues to grow, the importance of successfully integrating these providers to improve retention and outcomes increases as well.

The training and certification that nurse practitioners receive qualify them to administer a wide range of patient care, including the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of medical conditions. The ...

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number of geriatricians declines. The Health Resources and Services ...

Adult/gerontological acute care nurse practitioners work in emergency departments, tertiary care settings, intensive care units, trauma centers and specialty medicine areas treating patients with ...

Diane Smith, right, graduate program director of the UIndy School of Nursing, oversees a nursing student in a simulation exercise. Smith says nurses are the captain of a patient’s caregiving team.

April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...

Acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) students, specializing in flight nursing at Case Western Reserve University, will soon be training in the nation’s first state-of-the-art simulator built in an ...

In the policy world it’s rare to see proposals that solve serious problems without any obvious tradeoffs. That’s why our new paper from health care economist Peter Buerhaus, “Nurse practitioners: A ...

Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (ACPNP) are responsible for promoting the overall health of chronic, acute or critically ill children. In this program, you will discover best practices to ...

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, ...

Credit: Getty Images Nurse practitioners are critical in treating older adults, increasingly filling a gap in health care as the ranks of geriatricians shrink. KFF Health News — On Fridays, Stephanie ...