As of 2022, there were more than 355,000 nurse practitioners licensed in the United States alone. These highly skilled professionals are an indispensable part of our health care system, providing a ...

Nurses provide patient care in a wide variety of settings around the world. Registered nurses (RNs) can also earn an advanced degree and become an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). These ...

What Is a Nurse Practitioner? A nurse practitioner (NP) is a health care professional who offers a wide range of acute, primary, and specialty care services, either alone or alongside a doctor. The ...

The tiniest humans are cared for by neonatal (NICU) nurses. Neonates are babies born prematurely: i.e., before undergoing a full nine months of gestation. These babies have low birth weights and may ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

What kind of education do they need? NPs must be a registered nurse, hold a bachelor’s degree in nursing, complete an NP-focused graduate master degree or doctoral nursing program, and successfully ...

Welcome to The Work Day, a series that charts a single day in various women’s working lives — from gallery owners to stay-at-home parents to chief executives. In this installment, we hear from nurse ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The growing shortage of health care providers could be helped with a change in state law, says one group. As KDKA political editor Jon Delano reports, nurse practitioners say if ...