Nursing Times; 105: 40, xx-yy. This article outlines an initiative to develop an ophthalmic nurse practitioner’s role to carry out YAG laser peripheral iridotomy. It details the training and ...

As the need for efficient healthcare increases daily, nurse practitioners are in high demand and physicians are learning to share their territory. Although physicians have around four times more ...

NPs with a background in family medicine, acute care, adult health, or internal medicine could be trained and utilized in primary care practices, dialysis centers, and CKD clinics. Predialysis care is ...

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.

Despite the fact that the two have different types of training, in practical situations, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are increasingly being called upon to do similar work ...

As the reality of the nation's shortage of primary-care physicians sinks in, a growing number of states are looking beyond the daunting task of finding more physicians and considering the roles of ...

In medical practice, there traditionally has been a hierarchy of care providers, with physicians on top, supervising nurses. But more and more, nurses are finding a spot at the same level as doctors ...

Dr Jane O'Connell, Australia's first endorsed nurse practitioner specialising in emergency care, is leading the way in re-defining the role specialty nurse practitioners play in the health system. As ...

The United States has a shortage of primary care doctors, and some policymakers want to fill the gap by expanding the role of nurse practitioners. But the two professions are engaged in a turf war ...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) increasingly are providing more primary care to nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and a recent study examined the potential impact ...

You want a routine checkup. Or your throat is sore. It's probably nothing, but you're concerned. Do you need a full-fledged M.D. with all those certificates and perhaps a God complex? Even if you want ...